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On this day in 1959, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. His two-week trip during a lull in the Cold War included summit meetings with President Dwight D ...
Journalist who had Khrushchev’s ear as nuclear war loomed says Putin wouldn’t have caved to US When 94-year-old veteran foreign correspondent Marvin Kalb speaks, world leaders should pay ...
Things were never quiet when Nikita Sergeyivich was around. But what of his attitude toward the Jews? Khrushchev’s views on Jews can be broadly divided into two periods.
For the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the Kremlin today is taking the country back to the authoritarian nightmare of the past.
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, about her visit to Russia and how life has changed during its war on Ukraine.
Five months ago. when Nikita Khrushchev was engaged in mortal political battle with Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich, it was Marshal Georgy Zhukov who came to Khrushchev's rescue in a crucial ...
The 68-year-old granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev has filed a series of lawsuits against a state-owned TV network for airing a docudrama that, she says, falsely depicts her ...
It could have been a relaxing way to spend a weekend – except the men were President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and it was the height of the Cold War.
Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate created a portrait of the Soviets in WW2 that revealed "the grand sweep of history alongside the granular detail within", writes Nicholas Barrett.