Nikita Khrushchev

The Cosa Nostra formulated the Sicilian Mafia Commission or “La Cupula” to resolve intermafia issues. In 1962, La Cupula was formed between all of the Cosa Nostra bosses. La Cupula was instrumental in ending the first Mafia War. Keeping the peace between the Mafia bosses was a tough task, but it was necessary in order to complete political actions. As long as the mafiosos could cooperate and not give up other mafiosos positions, the entire operation would benefit. This was all that was…

There are criminals and peasants, artists and intellectuals, even former government officials and officers. In this, it becomes apparent that writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn is not only writing about the Gulags, but also offering readers a way to experience different aspects of Stalin’s the Soviet Union through his telling of the prison camps. This paper will explore a few of these characters, including Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, Alyosha the Baptist, Fetiukov the scrounger, Captain Buinovsku, and…

assess the degree to which the USSR’s missile deployment was for Cuba’s protection, the investigation analyses the global Cold War backdrop that set the tone for the USSR’s missile deployment. The period investigated is the events between 1953, when Khrushchev assumed control of the USSR, and 1961 when the missiles were actually deployed. The events within this analysis are Khrushchev’s leadership, Castro’s rise and early years in power, the state of relations between the USA and USSR and…

My fellow Americans, today we have found out that the Soviet Union is giving aid to Cuba. The Soviet Union is also shipping missiles to Cuba. These missiles can reach anywhere from Florida to Ohio and the United States could be attacked with these missiles. The Soviet Union is an enemy of the United States and they need to be stopped. When I was notified, a board consisting of me, Robert Kennedy, John McCone, Robert McNamara, and Maxwell Taylor. The board has met and have decide on what to do…

Completely unremarkable days are the kind that will add up to years in one’s life, and in Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Shukhov recounts a single unremarkable day of his ten year sentence in a Soviet gulag camp. During his day, Shukhov starves the reader by immersing them in the famine of the camp, establishing food as a basic necessity for survival. Along with the camp’s famine, Shukhov invites the reader to immerse themselves in the bitter coldness of northern Russia;…

Pravda was a daily newspaper that tried to prove labor activism and expose the working conditions in Russian factories. The first paper of Pravda was issued on May 5, 1912 in St. Petersburg by the Bolshevik's of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The paper was closed eight times in the first two years and every time it closed, the Bolsheviks reopened it under a new name "Worker's Truth," etc. Pravda represents Squealer in the book Animal Farm because Squealer tells lies to try to get everybody…

United States would be carrying out important military operations in the Caribbean, Cuba quickly denounced the move as a deliberate attempt by the U.S. to provoke and consequently lead an invasion of Cuba. The leader of Cuba (Castro) and the Soviet (Khrushchev), discretely reached an agreement allowing for the placement of strategic missiles in Cuba, fearing that it only a matter of time before the U.S. invaded Cuba, which would be detrimental to the communist objectives. According to Castro,…

In the summer of 1955, Eisenhower attempted to make yet another large step towards peace with the Soviet Union. At a summit, Eisenhower proposed his famed “Open Skies,” the plan that would allow mutual reconnaissance between all nuclear powers (Tal, 2001). Essentially, all the countries would disclose the location of every military and nuclear facility, and allow the other countries to fly surveillance planes above these facilities. This would allow the countries to verify that there is no plan…

On the final few days of the crisis, Cuba didn’t feel like they were going to have a say in what was going to happen in the end. Castro did not like being abandoned by the Soviet Union because they wanted to save their own interests. According to Belkin and Blight (1991), on the “final weekend of the crisis a communication from Castro warning of an American attack and proposing that the Soviets launch their missiles preemptively” because they didn’t feel like the compromise would be fulfilled on…

Soviet Union, Khrushchev responded to Kennedy’s message. He stated, “Mr. President, the Soviet government decided to help Cuba with means of defense against outside attack. These weapons were only meant for defensive purposes… You said then that Cuba will not be attacked or invaded by any country of the Western Hemisphere … We have given the order to discontinue building the installations. We shall dismantle them and withdraw them to the Soviet Union.” (Document 10) Here, Khrushchev explains…