60 years since the ‘most democratic coup’ in Soviet history, how Comrade Nikita was toppled

The overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev from the posts of first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and the leader of the Soviet state in October 1964 was an unprecedented event in the history of the Soviet Union. The old leader was deposed by the opposition without violence. He was not imprisoned or killed after losing […]

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