A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile ...

Secret negotiations between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and JFK and between his brother Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, and Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin led to a deal. U.S ...

The decision by President Donald Trump to initiate peace talks with Russia and Ukraine has raised hopes that the brutal war ...

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Nikita-in-Hollywood.html As part of a diplomatic mission, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled ...

An estimated half of them died in the next 18 months of hunger and harsh conditions. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred the peninsula from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of ...

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 ...

In the great marble hall where he once bragged of beating U.S. meat and milk output, Nikita Khrushchev last week told Soviet leaders what every Moscow housewife knows. With 12,000,000 more ...

Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev was rumoured to have banged his shoe on his delegation’s desk during a UN General Assembly meeting on 12 October 1960. Utilizing material from the UN Audiovisual ...

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev launched his effort to dismantle Stalin’s dictatorship, which removed “the heavy blanket of fear” among Russians. He “scrapped” Stalin’s belief in the ...