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Nikita Khrushchev's Journey into America
2019
Overview
When Nikita Khrushchev toured America in 1959-the first Russian
leader ever to set foot in the Western Hemisphere, let alone the
United States-the country was enjoying a period of unprecedented
prosperity, just as the Cold War and the possibility of
thermonuclear annihilation were causing widespread, bone-deep dread
throughout the land. This book for the first time fully explores
Khrushchev's journey as a reflection of a critical moment in US
life. Deeply researched and deftly written, Nikita Khrushchev's
Journey into America captures that moment in all its
complexity and implications, describing not only the Russian
leader's occasionally surreal itinerary (a tantrum at being denied
entry into Disneyland, for instance, or a near-riot upon wandering
into a grocery store in San Francisco) but also the tenor of the
crowds and the country along the way. Following Khrushchev from his
arrival in the nation's capital to the eerily silent greeting of
hundreds of thousands of spectators to his tickling of pigs,
kissing of babies, and glad-handing of union workers and farm
laborers in rural Iowa to his encounter with President Dwight
Eisenhower, Nelson and Schoenbachler's work offers glimpses of the
clash between a true believer in the Soviet system and the icons of
capitalism and visions of prosperity he repeatedly confronted on
his trip. At the same time the book shows us the American people of
the time coming to terms with who they were even as they confronted
the embodiment of everything they believed they weren't: atheistic,
socialist, and ideological. As the narrative unfolds, Khrushchev's
visit can be understood as easily the most democratic event of the
Cold War, one that laid bare the depth of ideological commitments
on both sides of the geopolitical divide as well as the key role of
religion in shaping Americans' reactions to the Soviet leader and
to the Cold War itself.
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Subject
ISBN
070062788X, 9780700627882
