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 ...

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.

MASON CITY — The September 1959 visit of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Iowa is still remembered by some North Iowans for the local man who crashed the event and gained national attention because ...

THE peasant face of Nikita Khrushchev, looming on this week’s cover against a symbolic background of the U.S., was painted by Bernard Safran, the son of a Russian immigrant who escaped to the U.S. in ...

The eyes of the world are on Iowa as deep in the throes of the Cold War, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev makes a visit to tour its farms, claiming his nation will soon rival the state in corn ...

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 ...