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How Khrushchev Underestimated Kennedy

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One evening in October 1962, Nikita Khrushchev attended a performance of Boris Godunov starring the American opera star Jerome Hines. Khrushchev led a standing ovation and congratulated Hines backstage. This might not sound like much, but it was in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis.  A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course by Marvin Kalb BookBaby, 532 pp. The idea of normal, even friendly contact between Americans a…

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How Khrushchev Underestimated Kennedy

One evening in October 1962, Nikita Khrushchev attended a performance of Boris Godunov starring the American opera star Jerome Hines. Khrushchev led a standing ovation and congratulated Hines backstage. This might not sound like much, but it was in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis.  A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course by Marvin Kalb BookBaby, 532 pp. The idea of normal, even friendly contact between Americans a…

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