To what extent did Khrushchev reduce tension in 1953-1960?
Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviets after the death of Stalin and a short struggle for power with Malentov. He was thought to be a man the Americans could try to approach because he used a great number of methods to try to reduce the tension between the USSR and the US. These methods included proposing summit meetings, destalinization, proposing peaceful co-existence, halting the testing of nuclear devices. However the success of Sputnik made …
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…foiled at the end.
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