When Khrushchev paid a visit to China in September 1959, he was coldly received and left the country on the third day of a planned seven-day visit. The Soviets had planned to provide China with an ...

Janan Ganesh’s column “Tariffs will not restore US unipolarity” (Opinion, February 13), musing about what might have happened to world economic history had China not been admitted into the ...

For those who longed for calm, the rise of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev would prove to be a mixed blessing. Though the mass purges were halted, Khrushchev’s leadership was anything but tranquil.