Special Features
- Video Gallery: Clips from Cold War Roadshow
- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
- Timeline: Nikita Khrushchev's Trip Itinerary
- Bonus Video: Khrushchev's American Journey
- Bonus Video: Beyond the Doc: Khrushchev
Premieres November 18, 2014. For 12 days in September 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled the United States from coast to coast, creating a media circus as hundreds of reporters followed his every move. Americans were fascinated by the communist leader and the trip served to ease Cold War tensions -- if only for a short time.
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Khrushchev and the Comedy of History
October 22, 2014
Nikita Khrushchev’s delightfully absurd 1959 trip across America was a hilarious journey that illustrates a truth most historians choose to ignore: History is sometimes comedy.