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

In that perilous political climate, a shy, gangling newspaper cartoonist named Kari Suomalainen has enraged none other than Nikita Khrushchev ... (which showed up on posters in Britain during ...

One evening in October 1962, Nikita Khrushchev attended a performance of Boris Godunov starring the American opera star Jerome Hines. Khrushchev led a standing ovation and congratulated Hines ...

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (R) and Leonid Brezhnev wave from Lenin’s Tomb in ...

Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the Soviet Union through a willingness to proceed with caution -- and a gamble that Premier Nikita Khrushchev was just as ...

Pie Chamberlain: The great showman of the East, Nikita Khrushchev is replaced by man of less color and vitality, the generation of clerks and technocrats. Khrushchev succeeded Georgy Malenkov as ...

Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new Communist leader in 1955 and immediately contributed to this new hope. Khrushchev encouraged a policy of ‘de-Stalinisation’ within the Communist Party and ...

This bold move not only eliminated a dangerous rival but also signaled Khrushchev’s willingness to take risks to consolidate power. The man who was dubbed “Hurricane Nikita” was a bundle of ...