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About a month ago, soon after Nikita Khrushchev touched off a general crackdown on modern art (TIME, Dec. 14), several hundred Soviet artists ... But Falk’s painting will live as long as there ...

Nikita Khrushchev continued to aid in the spread of communism around the world and Kennedy wanted to show the American public he would not be bullied by the Soviet premier. John F. Kennedy ...

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...

Nikita Khrushchev is replaced by man of less color and vitality, the generation of clerks and technocrats. Khrushchev succeeded Georgy Malenkov as head of the Soviet Communist Party, on March 14 ...

Looking back over the past 75 years, there may not be a more unpredictable and mercurial character in world events than Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ... of the Soviet Union, pounded his ...