Yuri Gagarin was the first man to ever step foot in space in 1961 but what happened six years later to cause his death at the ...

(photo credit: CENTRAL PRESS/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES) By 1953 and the death of Russian leader Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev had experienced a remarkable rise from the industrial provinces ...

Pie Chamberlain: The great showman of the East, Nikita Khrushchev is replaced by man ... just nine days after Stalin’s death. In 11 years, the gregarious commissar left his mark on the world.

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

Fifty summers ago President Dwight Eisenhower, hoping to resolve a mounting crisis over the fate of Berlin, invited Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ... who were scared to death of being seen ...

Khrushchev, emerging as a key player in the post-Stalin era, led the way merely months after Stalin’s death with the ousting ... The man who was dubbed “Hurricane Nikita” was a bundle ...