A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile ...

What does Mao Tse-tung want? He wants Nikita Khrushchev dead. In so many blunt words, Mao told this to a French parliamentary delegation visiting Peking last month. As recalled in Paris last week ...

At first Mao often intervened grandly in Communist Europe—at one point to back the Poles against Kremlin pressures, later to help Khrushchev when his authority tottered after the Hungarian ...

Mao did both. He made his tactical point by accepting Moscow’s call for bilateral negotiations over the Sino-Soviet rift and inviting Nikita Khrushchev to Peking. “The Communist movement has ...

In fact, a main topic, acknowledged or not, will be the Mao-Khrushchev rift and what to do about it. But the agricultural problem on the agenda is more than camouflage. Amid their ideological ...

Khrushchev described the scene ... Ritual humiliation was also a specialty of Mao Zedong. He forced Zhou Enlai – an architect of Chinese communism and the People’s Republic’s longest ...

We had Khrushchev roaring at the Chinese communist early in 1964. He called Mao Tsetung a dogmatist, an Anti-Marxist, and raised against Peking’s bid for world communist mastery and claims of ...

When Khrushchev visited Beijing in 1958, Mao refused proposals for military cooperation. When Khrushchev paid a visit to China in September 1959, he was coldly received and left the country on the ...

Khrushchev and Mao had different views on how a communist country should be governed. Khrushchev was determined to wipe out hardliner Stalinist policies, while Mao adopted many of them.

One of history’s most notorious dictators, Josef Stalin, regularly demeaned my great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, and his politburo colleagues. As Khrushchev recounted much later, Stalin once ...