On this day in 1959, Vice President Richard Nixon (1913-1994) and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971 ... the fact that we have 1,000 builders building 1,000 different houses is the ...

To put over his plan to swallow Berlin, after all the buildup and the bluster, Nikita Khrushchev called the ... of the Kremlin’s Council of Ministers Building that the notes his government ...

He was as contradictory as his era. Khrushchyovka: a two- and five-story, massive apartment building from Khrushchev’s time Kolkhoz (“kollektivnoe khozyaistvo”): a farming collective ...