Khrushchev

In the years 1955­62, Khrushchev was genuinely committed to peaceful coexistence.     Peaceful  co­existence  is the  idea  that  the two  superpowers in the world, the USSR and the USA  can  accept  each  other’s  ideologies  and  consequentially  their  satellite  states  in  the  interests  of  peace,  whether   Khrushchev  was  entirely  committed  to  this  notion  is   debatable  due  to  his  ‘behind  the  scenes’  actions  between  1955  and  1962.  The Austrian  state  treaty  of 1955 seemed 

Crisis Nikita Khrushchev and the Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the closest the world ever came to full-scale nuclear war. When the Soviet Union placed offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba, President Kennedy interpreted the act as one of hostility that would not be tolerated. However, the situation was blown way out or proportion by the president, American media, and ultimately the citizens of the United States. The Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, was reacting to the

· The speech, however, was not as effective as Khrushchev had hoped. It failed to criticize many aspects of Stalin's rule and did not condemn Stalin as a person, but rather, the Stalinist system. Nonetheless, it shocked the delegates, and effectively instigated Desalinization in the Soviet Union. Why did Khrushchev do it? * Several possible reasons: - Wished to liberate the party officials from the fear

Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Party Congress, otherwise known as the secret speech. The main components of the reforms were changing or removing prominent institutions that had helped Stalin remain in power; the Stalinist political system, political party members that had supported him (beginning with the arrest and subsequent execution of political rival Lavrentiy Beria) and the removal of the Gulag labour camp system. Khrushchev was desperate to present himself as

Americas (Result of the Cuban Missile Crisis). Also, it opened the way for Khrushchev to push for disarmament (Result of the Cuban Missile Crisis). This benefited the Soviet Union more than the United States, because they were behind the United States in nuclear arm power and capabilities (Result of the Cuban Missile Crisis). The way the crisis was resolved made many within the Soviet government and public see Khrushchev as weak, because he gave in too much to the United States’s demands which in

when Nikita Khrushchev was elected the First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party it began the start of de-Stalinization which undid Stalins reign of terror and characteristics as a leader. The main elements of de-Stalinization were known as Thaw, which allowed for the introduction of new policies, the liberalization of intellectual development, and loosening the ideological

To what extent was Destalinization responsible for Khrushchev’s fall from power in 1964? Many Historians have debated as to why Khrushchev fell from power in 1964. Historian John Laver states that the failures in foreign policy “are what provided the final straw for many colleagues” however Pravda were eager to blame “his hare-brained schemes”. To assess the reason for his fall from power in 1964 one must assess the policy of De-Stalinisation, his failures in foreign policy and his economic reforms

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Soviet Communist leader, who was first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party from 1953 to 1964 and president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1958 to 1964. After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, Khrushchev became the head of the Communist Party of the USSR. In 1961, relations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) grew increasingly hostile. President Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had a strained

This is what many people say started the tensions, we placed Nukes at their doorstep, thusly Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier feared the imbalance of power would prompt America to strike first. While this psychological fear of Khrushchevs is a piece to the puzzle, many other things factor into the eventual crisis. The economic dealings between the Soviets and Cuba, already gave Khrushchev a footing near America in which he could fix the imbalance of power. But the only reason the USSR and

conflict characterized by the use of means short of sustained overt military action”. This is exactly what happened between two world superpowers, the United States, which was led by President Kennedy, and the Soviet Union, which was led by Premier Khrushchev, between the years of 1945 and 1990. The U.S. tried to keep communist contained so that it would not spread, but the U.S.S.R. had other plans. Though no large scale military attack between the two directly, there were several small skirmishes in