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

Even Ukraine’s staunchest allies sometimes waver, tempted to suggest that Kyiv concede Crimea to Russia as the long-running war there wages on. They often fall prey to a persistent myth: that Crimea ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 1959 (UPI) - Following is the text of President Eisenhower's welcoming remarks to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev:"Mr. Chairman, I welcome you, your family and party to the ...

Fifty summers ago President Dwight Eisenhower, hoping to resolve a mounting crisis over the fate of Berlin, invited Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to a summit meeting at Camp David. Ike had no idea ...

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 ...