Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Timothy Naftali talked about the book he co-wrote, "Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary," and Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 ...

Nikita Khrushchev may well have been the first reality television star. In 1959, the pugnacious general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union undertook a tour across America, during ...

In the fall of 1959, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet premier to visit the United States. Khrushchev said he was “curious to have a look at America” and had been trying to get an invitation ...

When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the U.S. in 1959, thousands came out to see his motorcade pass through the streets of New York City and Washington, D.C. The experience, however, was more ...

Of course, he got 90 minutes of free, prime time on TV, and was able to meet the folks in the Kremlin’s mighty marble Palace of the Congresses. Otherwise, Nikita Khrushchev’s stump speech to his ...