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Looking back over the past 75 years, there may not be a more unpredictable and mercurial character in world events than Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. His antics during the height of the Cold ...

Pie Chamberlain: The great showman of the East, Nikita Khrushchev is replaced by man ... just nine days after Stalin’s death. In 11 years, the gregarious commissar left his mark on the world.

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-red-threat/ Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in ...

After Stalin’s death in 1953, it looked as though the Cold War might thaw a little. The new leader Nikita Khrushchev looked for a peaceful coexistence. In 1959 he said, There are two ways ...