The Khrushchev Era, 1953-1964History and politics students alike will welcome this new Seminar Study which analyses the Khrushchev era -- a critical period of Soviet and world history. It was Khrushchev who, in 1957, finally filled the political vacuum left by the death of Stalin in 1953. He was an erratic, impulsive, inspirational and innovative leader who addressed the fundamental problems of the country - and yet he was, Martin McCauley argues, "a brilliant failure''. In this study the author explores all aspects of the Khrushchev era: including reforms in agriculture, economic policy, crises in Eastern Europe, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, de-Stalinisation and Khrushchev's attempts to reform the Communist Party. |
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... China , 1958 Relations with China also deteriorated in 1958. Mao regarded a third world war as inevitable and accused Khrushchev of being too soft the imperialists . China's ' Great Leap Forward ' to communism was under under way ...
... Chinese anger at the policies of the Soviet Union was not mere acting but the real thing . Border clashes between China and India , in early 1960 , added fuel to the fire . The Chinese took it for granted that Moscow would support them ...
Martin McCauley. DOCUMENT 8 CHINA Mao felt insulted when he visited Moscow for the first time as head of the People's Republic of China . He asked for substantial aid but was given only a modest loan , on which he was required to pay ...
Contents
Khrushchev in Moscow | 4 |
Rebuilding Ukraine | 11 |
DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS | 17 |
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