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 ...

Fifty summers ago President Dwight Eisenhower, hoping to resolve a mounting crisis over the fate of Berlin, invited Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to a summit meeting at Camp David. Ike had no ...

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

Premier Nikita Khrushchev yesterday ordered Soviet officers to stop all work on Cuban rocket bases and to make the necessary arrangements for shipping missiles now on the island of Cuba back to ...

Notorious leaders who won the recognition once include former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, former Soviet Union Prime Minister ...

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 ...

Within minutes, Khrushchev’s premature obituary flashed around the world. Nikita Khrushchev, of course, was not dead. Nor had Tass said he was. What, then, had happened? Achtung! By week’s end ...

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Another man, not exactly a man of peace, but one who preached peaceful coexistence traveled to Egypt and Scandinavia in 1964, but on October 15th, the political career of Nikita Khrushchev was ...

Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled across the United States, meeting Americans from New York to Iowa to California. National Treasure: Amelia Earhart Designed a New Future for Women Who Was ...