Item COLD WAR 28/58 - Transcript of interview with Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Khrushchev, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964, chiefly describing his fathers actions and opinions relating to his aims for Soviet society, 1954-1964; the Soviet rejection of US President Dwight David Eisenhower's Open Skies proposal, to allow US and Soviet aircraft to overfly each other's countries to observe military installations, and for an exchange of military programmes to occur, [1953]; the official visit to the USA by Nikita Khrushchev, 1959; the visit to the UK by Khrushchev and Marshal Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin, Soviet Prime Minister, Apr 1956; the opposition in the USSR to Khrushchev's leadership, 1954-1964; his policies to improve living conditions in the USSR, 1954-1964; Soviet military expenditure, 1954-1964; Khrushchev's opinion of Soviet art and literature, 1954-1964; Khrushchev's decision, influenced by Aleksandr Trofimovich Tvardovsky, Editor of Novyy mir, to authorise the Soviet publication of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, 1962, and The Heirs of Stalin (1961) by Yevtushenko, 1961; Khrushchev's fascination with the development of new technologies, 1954-1964; his removal from power and subsequent nervous breakdown, 1964; the rise to power of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, 1960-1964; the denunciation by Nikita Khrushchev, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Khrushchev's decision to install Soviet nuclear weapons on Cuba, 1962. 40pp