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

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

I received your message of 27 October and I am grateful for your appreciation of the responsibility you bear for world peace and security. The Soviet government has ordered the dismantling of ...

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Nikita Khrushchev is seen addressing the National ... never fully recovered; by the time John F. Kennedy took office in 1961, US-Soviet relations had returned to a dangerous state of brinkmanship.

Another man, not exactly a man of peace, but one who preached peaceful coexistence traveled to Egypt and Scandinavia in 1964, but on October 15th, the political career of Nikita Khrushchev was ...