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5 days ago · In late September 1956 Tito and his colleagues visited Khrushchev in the Crimea. On 29 September Khrushchev arranged for his guests to see missiles fired from ship and shore installations, tests that made, he reported, "a staggering impression on Tito."
3 days ago · During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor Joseph Stalin's crimes and embarked on a policy of de-Stalinization with his key ally Anastas Mikoyan. He sponsored the early Soviet space program and the enactment of moderate reforms in domestic policy.
4 days ago · Russia - Khrushchev, Soviet Union, Cold War: After Stalin’s death in 1953, a power struggle for leadership ensued, which was won by Nikita Khrushchev. His landmark decisions in foreign policy and domestic programs markedly changed the direction of the Soviet Union, bringing détente with the West and a relaxation of rigid controls ...
3 days ago · He took an incalculable risk: in his “Secret Speech,” delivered to a closed session at the 20th Party Congress in February 1956, Khrushchev demolished Stalin’s legacy, criticizing his way of running the country after 1934.
5 days ago · Moreover, wishing to humiliate his Soviet guest, the Chairman decided to conduct the negotiations in a swimming pool, around which, half an hour before his second conversation with Khrushchev, he met with his Chinese interpreters in order to admonish one of them, Li Yueran, who from Mao’s perspective had not conveyed the full range ...
1 day ago · then he moved on to the sino-soviet split two sons in the heavens, if only. we then got unwanted visionaries. a story of the failures of the soviet union and then post-soviet russia in east asia, the dreams or the the fantasies, but the failure to realize those dreams. and today, as i said, we have to run the world. as you can see, the kremlin's cold war bid for global. so the three earlier ...
2 days ago · At the 20th Party Congress in 1956 (where Khrushchev gave his “Secret Speech” condemning parts of Stalinism), IVAN’s work was heavily attacked for being ineffective, and for being stuck in bourgeois traditions; Anastas Mikoian, a major Soviet ideologist, claimed that while the colonial world was “awakening,” and increasingly transforming into independent states, Soviet Orientology ...
