A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile ...

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...

He oversaw the building of the Berlin Wall, cementing the physical Iron Curtain across Europe, ... Nikita Sergeyevich ...

It's with surprising ease that Robert Kee steps across the border from East to West Berlin as, before the erection of the wall ... In November 1958, Nikita Khrushchev issued an ultimatum to ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-red-threat/ Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in ...

But Kennedy did not want to appear afraid to face down Nikita Khrushchev. The Soviet premier was making noises about annexing democratic West Berlin and actively aiding anti-colonial movements in ...