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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.

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 ...

Wilted and liverish, his famed bounce almost gone, Nikita Khrushchev sweated grimly through the final week of his state visit to Egypt. He barely glanced at the Karnak temples, passed up the ...

Visiting Moscow in 1989, I opted not to visit Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum in Red Square, a major tourist attraction. Instead, I took in Nikita Khrushchev's tomb. Lenin brought great misery to Russians ...

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 ...

He called them “gentlemen capital ists,” and only occasionally suggested that all capitalists are really robbers and cheats. Communist delegations from all over the world crowded into Moscow for the ...

Nina Khrushcheva, professor in the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs of International Affairs at the New School and ...

The failures and successes of Russian President Vladimir Putin will be the focus of a talk Thursday at William & Mary by Nina Khrushcheva, a great-granddaughter of former Soviet Union leader Nikita ...