Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as ...

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 ...

In 1959, as the Cold War took hold but two years before the Berlin Wall was erected and three years before the Cuban missile crisis, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the U.S.

In 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev toured the United States, from Hollywood to Washington. His goal was bold—cool tensions and reshape the Cold War ...

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 ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course" (BookBaby), veteran journalist Marvin Kalb writes ...

Bob Greene’s op-ed “A Warning About Khrushchev” (March 2) brings to mind a short letter to the editor published in the Chicago Tribune during the 1960 presidential election campaign. It went something ...

At times last week it looked as if Nikita Khrushchev might be running for the presidency of Indonesia. When Sukarno, the President, proudly showed him a model of an Olympic village for the 1962 Asian ...

“Your own working class will bury you” were words spoken by Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1963. He often stated that the United States would not be destroyed from an outside power, but by ...