Nikita Khrushchev

In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. It was a direct and dangerous confrontation that placed the two superpowers closest to a nuclear conflict. During the crisis, a fragile peace hung by only a thread for 13 days as the United States instituted a naval blockade of Cuba to turn back Soviet ships, and work to turn back the armament of Cuba with offensive nuclear, and tactical weapons within the…

Bay of Pigs was executed on April 17, 1961 and was a complete failure and embarrassment to President Kennedy. The Cuban invaders were forced to flee and surrender to Castro’s forces. This operation was in fact one of the reasons that Castro and Khrushchev formed an alliance which led to the installation of nuclear weapons in Cuba. Noticing that they both shared a common enemy, a relationship was sparked between the two. Castro felt threatened that the United States would make another, more…

Have you ever heard of John F Kennedy, commonly known as JFK? He was born on May 29, 1963 in Brookville, Massachusetts. He had six siblings all together including himself. He was the 35th president of the United States Of America. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The first impact that John F kennedy made was leading the United States Of America through the cuban missile crisis. The first thing he did was warn the people of the United States. He told the military to put a naval…

The Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev was very different place than the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. While these leader faced similar problems, their methods of repairing the Soviet Union differed greatly. While Gorbachev was open to change Brezhnev was very conservative and unwilling to reform. Brezhnev remained in power for eighteen year, but its was Gorbachev that completely changed the landscape of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union under both Gorbachev and Brezhnev faced…

S. to terminate diplomatic relations with Cuba in January of 1961. By April of the same year, a group of Cuban exiles (backed by the US) invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in a failed attempt to trigger an anti-Castro rebellion. In June, President Khrushchev and President Kennedy hold summit talks in Vienna regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over a year later…

In many situations, faith and endurance is the key to survival and the only way to keep one from degrading under social and physical oppression. One day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a novel that depicts the journey of a convict, Ivan (Shukhov) Denisovich, through one day of his sentence at a Stalinist work camp designed to physically and mentally test the prisoners. His hopefulness and camaraderie spirit with those in his bunk sustain him throughout his…

Approach The Soviet 60s had similar cultural processes to those in Western Europe: it was a time of intellectual protest and liberalization. While France had the Revolution of 1968, the Soviet intellectual started liberty rights movement and in the 1970s, they were ostracized as dissidents. Strikingly, Bakhtin’s culture theory has similarities with French philosophical systems of the same time. First, his approach reminds of Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and Guattari’s “Chaosmosis.”…

Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952. He was a rough communist leader who spread fear, terror, and other horrid emotions to his people. Many hate Stalin for his brutal leadership and have even called him worse than Hitler in terms of authority and deaths among his people. Like many strong dictators, Stalin used many different forms of horror to keep a iron grip reserving his position of lead in his country. But how exactly did Joseph Stalin keep the Soviet Union…

“Harrison Bergeron” is a fictitious story written by Kurt Vonnegut in October of 1961. During the time period in which it was published, the Soviet Union (USSR) was still in power. The Soviet Union was a communist society that used force from “secret police”, whose main objective was to censor the people. The story “Harrison Bergeron” has a similar approach set in a dystopian society in the year 2081. In this society “Everybody was finally equal....Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody…

There are many similarities and differences between Joseph Stalin and Fidel Castro. Both are strong communist leaders that rule their counties with an iron fist. Stalin and Castro rose to power to form totalitarian dictatorships in the countries they ruled. They have used various methods to rise to power in their countries and they have worked hard to maintain that power. They both had huge impacts on the world and on Cuba and Russia. Joseph Stalin rose to power after the death of Vladimir Lenin…