Nikita S Khrushchev

Kremlin colleagues dragged a trembling Leonid I. Brezhnev to the telephone to make the call which led to him to topple Nikita S. Khrushchev as Soviet leader in 1964, according to a former KGB chief. In an interview with the weekly Argumenti i Fakti published Friday Vladimir V. Semichastny, who headed the KGB state security service from 1961 to 1967 gave an intriguing insight into the coup that ousted Khrushchev, whose flamboyant behavior and reform schemes met with mounting criticism within the leadership.

Sergei Khrushchev, son of the late Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, correctly answered 19 of 20 questions to pass a written test for becoming a U.S. citizen. "I got a 95, and my wife had a perfect score," the researcher told reporters after taking a multiple-choice examination at the Immigration and Naturalization Service's office in Providence, R.I.

Nikita, the Caspian Sea sturgeon that was a symbol of good relations between Norway and the Soviet Union, died at the Bergen Aquarium after a worker mistakenly put salt water in its tank. The long and elegant Nikita was 38 years old, but could have lived happily for more than a century. A gift from former Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, it arrived in 1964, the only one of four that survived the trip, the Oslo newspaper Dagsavisen reported.

Nikita, the Caspian Sea sturgeon that was a symbol of good relations between Norway and the Soviet Union, died at the Bergen Aquarium after a worker mistakenly put salt water in its tank. The long and elegant Nikita was 38 years old, but could have lived happily for more than a century. A gift from former Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, it arrived in 1964, the only one of four that survived the trip, the Oslo newspaper Dagsavisen reported.

Sergei Khrushchev, son of the late Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, correctly answered 19 of 20 questions to pass a written test for becoming a U.S. citizen. "I got a 95, and my wife had a perfect score," the researcher told reporters after taking a multiple-choice examination at the Immigration and Naturalization Service's office in Providence, R.I.

The late Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, written out of official history for two decades, was hailed at a Moscow meeting Sunday night as the man who sowed the seeds for Mikhail S. Gorbachev's program of reform, known as perestroika . About 2,000 people marking Khrushchev's 95th birthday in a hall near the Kremlin heard survivors of Josef Stalin's labor camps as well as Soviet intellectuals persecuted under former leader Leonid I....

Former Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, referring often to the thermonuclear war that had just been averted, urged President John F. Kennedy to join him in taking advantage of the end of the Cuban missile crisis to solve all remaining U.S.-Soviet problems, especially the status of Berlin, newly declassified letters indicated Monday.

In many ways, Mikhail S. Gorbachev's arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Monday was reminiscent of the first time a Soviet leader set foot on U.S. soil nearly three decades ago. That visit, by Nikita S. Khrushchev on a gray Sept. 15, 1959, enabled the American public to witness the ways of Soviet officialdom for the first time. Gorbachev appeared considerably more fashionable than his medal-bedecked predecessor, but he was hardly the exuberant Western-type of politician that U.S.

A Soviet newspaper Wednesday published the first account to appear in public here on how the late Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev ordered the arrest of Josef Stalin's secret police chief, Lavrenti P. Beria. An article in the weekly Literary Gazette quoted Khrushchev's account of the dramatic 1953 downfall of Beria, Stalin's heir-apparent, who was later shot.

The late Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev received a rare accolade in the press Thursday, one day after his successor's name was all but wiped off the map. The praise for Khrushchev, who was general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party from 1953 to 1964, came in a commentary by a local newspaper, Moscow Pravda, applauding the decision to remove the name of Leonid I. Brezhnev from a neighborhood district in Moscow, a city in the Tatar Autonomous Republic and squares in Leningrad and Moscow.

Their grandfathers' argument in a mock-up of an American kitchen made Cold War history. Now the grandson of President Richard Nixon and a granddaughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sat side-by-side Sunday, 36 years to the day after Nixon had predicted in a speech that Khrushchev's grandchildren would live in freedom. "Nixon was right and Khrushchev was wrong," Nina Khrushcheva told the crowd gathered at the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace on Sunday.

Their grandfathers' argument in a mock-up of an American kitchen made Cold War history. Now the grandson of President Richard Nixon and a granddaughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sat side by side Sunday, 36 years to the day after Nixon had predicted in a speech that Khrushchev's grandchildren would live in freedom. "Nixon was right and Khrushchev was wrong," Nina Khrushcheva, 32, told the crowd gathered at the Nixon Library & Birthplace.

There's little doubt it will be one of the world's strangest theme parks, a place for Russians jostled by today's tough times to travel back through the decades to more stable, Communist days. It will be a place where they can hear a radio trumpeting the launch of Sputnik and other victories in the space race with the Americans. It will be a place where, for 22 kopecks, they will be able to swig a bottle of cold beer that today costs 100 times as much.

Former Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, referring often to the thermonuclear war that had just been averted, urged President John F. Kennedy to join him in taking advantage of the end of the Cuban missile crisis to solve all remaining U.S.-Soviet problems, especially the status of Berlin, newly declassified letters indicated Monday.

The American public saw them as opposites. One was the symbol of the Cold War, a man who sent missiles to Cuba and spoke ominously og burying us. The other tore down walls and dismantled nuclear warheads, emerging as a symbol of peace, friendship and hope. But in the end, the umpredictable Mikhail S. Gorbachev went very much the way of the enigmatic Nikita S. Khrushchev. Some parallels between Gorbachev's ouster early Monday and Khrushchev's downfall 27 years ddn are obvious.

When Mikhail Gorbachev leaves Washington to take a swift look at America's heartland, he can hardly expect to match the frenzy and flair of the first Soviet leader to tour the United States--Nikita Khrushchev in 1959. The bald, rotund, beady-eyed Khrushchev transformed his tour into a circus extravaganza with himself as the rambunctious and leading clown.

The American public saw them as opposites. One was the symbol of the Cold War, a man who sent missiles to Cuba and spoke ominously og burying us. The other tore down walls and dismantled nuclear warheads, emerging as a symbol of peace, friendship and hope. But in the end, the umpredictable Mikhail S. Gorbachev went very much the way of the enigmatic Nikita S. Khrushchev. Some parallels between Gorbachev's ouster early Monday and Khrushchev's downfall 27 years ddn are obvious.

There's little doubt it will be one of the world's strangest theme parks, a place for Russians jostled by today's tough times to travel back through the decades to more stable, Communist days. It will be a place where they can hear a radio trumpeting the launch of Sputnik and other victories in the space race with the Americans. It will be a place where, for 22 kopecks, they will be able to swig a bottle of cold beer that today costs 100 times as much.

This is a tale of two Californias, separated in time by the space of 30 years. You can choose the California you like best, but you may be surprised. The first California is the one that will soon greet Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev when he pays a call on Stanford and San Francisco. (Why this man is snubbing Los Angeles remains a mystery. Does he think he's gonna catch Madonna sipping a soda in San Francisco?) In any case, this California is the one we recognize.

To be a successful Soviet historian, an old joke goes, you've got to have a knack for predicting the past. As a case in point, this country's changing view of Nikita S. Khrushchev is surely one of the most vivid examples. After a decade of adoration by Soviet media while he served in one of the world's most powerful jobs, the Communist Party's general secretary was deposed overnight in a bloodless coup in October, 1964.