Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

In 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev approved the transfer of Crimea from the Russian Soviet Republic to the Ukrainian ...

Like millions of Americans in the summer of 1959, Harriet Van Horne, a New York City newspaper columnist, saw the famous impromptu Moscow "Kitchen Debate" between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and ...

AMES, Iowa -- Liz Garst was 8 years old in 1959 when her grandfather hosted Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at his Coon Rapids farm. During a talk at Iowa State University, Garst will share how this ...

In Nikolai Gogol’s 19th-century novel, “Dead Souls,” the hero, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, visits local landowners to buy up recently deceased serfs whose names are still on the census registry so that ...

As a Time magazine bureau chief, he was pivotal in the publication of revelatory taped interviews with the ousted premier that had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union. By Sam Roberts On Sunday, Xi ...

Futurists disagree over how much the future lends itself to control and foreknowledge. Many focus too much on the grandiose.

Nikita Khrushchev Goes to Hollywood Lunch with the Soviet leader was Tinseltown’s hottest ticket, with famous celebrities including Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin Peter Carlson July 2009 ...

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 ...

As Khrushchev's motorcade pulled up to the studio, the stars watched live coverage of his arrival on televisions that had been set up around the room, their knobs removed so nobody could change the ...