For years numerous books on the Cuban Missile Crisis saw print bereft of archival research in the Soviet Union or the unknown tape recordings that President Kennedy made of the crisis management team he assembled to deal with the missiles in Cuba. Kennedy's team was known as the Executive ...
Soviet intelligence and the Cuban missile crisisdoi:10.1080/02684529808432494AleksandrChairmanFursenkoChairman&ChairmanTimothyChairmanNaftaliChairmanInformaworldIntelligence and National Security
“de-Stalinization” reforms. It will also cover some of the main events of Khrushchev’s reign as Soviet premier, including the repression of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, the 1960 U-2 Crisis, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and Khruschev’s removal of power & replacement by Leonid ...
Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier positioned Soviet military missile in Cuba that had come under the Soviet power since the victory of the Cuban Revolution (Lockwood, Lockwood and Lockwood 15). This crisis occurred during the cold war and was the instant when the two superior powers came ...
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Bulganin was a statesman and industrial and economic administrator who was premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958. Bulganin began his career as a Cheka (Bolshevik secret police) officer in 1918. Later, as manager of Moscow’
Khrushchev ruled the Soviet Union during the construction of the Berlin Wall, the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion (in which the CIA attempted to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro) and the Cuban Missile Crisis, which many believe to be the closest the United States and the Soviet Union ever ...
America’s “inordinate fear of communism” underwent a change of opinion following the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in December 1979. East-West tensions during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan (1981–1985) increased to levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. ...
Greater lethality was to come the next year with theCuban Missile Crisis. This is often sold as JFK’s moment of steely toughness, when he made the Soviets blink and back down, but as a recent book byDaniel Ellsbergreveals, that crisis nearly resulted in nuclear war between the U.S. and...
After Stalin’s death in 1953,Nikita Khrushchevrose to power. He became Communist Party secretary in 1953 and premier in 1958. Khrushchev’s tenure spanned the tensest years of the Cold War. He instigated theCuban Missile Crisisin 1962 by installing nuclear weapons just 90 miles from Florida’...
Khrushchev sparred with the United States over the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crisis, but attempted some degree of "thaw" in domestic policies in the Soviet Union, easing travel restrictions and freeing thousands of Stalin's political prisoners. Fidel Castro established the first communist state...