Nikita Khrushchev, right, with U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower riding in car in Washington, ... Khrushchev (1894-1971), who came to power after the death of Josef Stalin in 1953, ...

One of Nikita Khrushchev’s first acts on the death of Stalin was to rush to Belgrade to bear-hug the heretic Tito, and to endorse his thesis of “different roads to Socialism.” ...

By 1953 and the death of Russian leader Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev had experienced a remarkable rise from the industrial provinces of eastern Ukraine, through the Russian Civil War and the ...

Stalin’s death brought an uncertain pause – a fleeting hope that the days ahead might be quieter. For those who longed for calm, the rise of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev would prove to be a ...

ARRIVING for an inspection trip in Bucharest last week, Nikita Khrushchev seemed weary, listless, and troubled by the heat. Briefly, Khrushchev recovered his remarkable vigor, then sagged again as ...

Jerrold Schecter, a journalist who in the late 1960s helped smuggle to the West the revelatory memoirs of the former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, the first published account by a Soviet ...