February 25 highlights Khrushchev’s Secret Speech exposing Stalin’s crimes, plus key moments in politics, art, and science ...

Seven decades ago, in the early hours of February 25, 1956, inside the precincts of the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, stood before a ...

ON FEBRUARY 24 1956, 10 days after it opened in Moscow, delegates to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s (CPSU) 20th ...

On 25 February 1956, the Soviet leader made a speech in which he called Stalin a dictator who had led a regime of ‘suspicion, fear and terror’ ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Oct. 12, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. Looking back over the past 75 years, there may not ...

Like millions of Americans in the summer of 1959, Harriet Van Horne, a New York City newspaper columnist, saw the famous impromptu Moscow "Kitchen Debate" between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and ...

Fifty summers ago President Dwight Eisenhower, hoping to resolve a mounting crisis over the fate of Berlin, invited Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to a summit meeting at Camp David. Ike had no idea ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Timothy Naftali talked about the book he co-wrote, "Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary," and Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 ...

As a Time magazine bureau chief, he was pivotal in the publication of revelatory taped interviews with the ousted premier that had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union. By Sam Roberts On Sunday, Xi ...

AMES, Iowa -- Liz Garst was 8 years old in 1959 when her grandfather hosted Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at his Coon Rapids farm. During a talk at Iowa State University, Garst will share how this ...

As Khrushchev's motorcade pulled up to the studio, the stars watched live coverage of his arrival on televisions that had been set up around the room, their knobs removed so nobody could change the ...