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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...