khrushchev

Foreword: ABWWTP as nobody calls it was my first major TL project, before it fell off the rails. Then again, I should have expected nothing else from a timeline I started writing when I was finishing seventh grade a few years ago. Therefore, I will be 'redux-ing' the Turtledove-eligible...

So let’s say that Nixon didn’t have a bout of fever, laid off of the chocolate milk, and had a shave ahead of the debate with Kennedy and comes off better than IOTL. Whatever is the most plausible POD, Richard Nixon is elected President in 1960. What kind of foreign policy would President Nixon...

What if the Anti-Party group had succeeded in overthrowing Khrushchev in June 1957? It seems as though every book I read on the subject takes a different view to who the main leader of the coup was (some say Molotov, others Malenkov, one even suggested Kaganovich) and who would take over the...

The Four Horsemen: the Nuclear Apocalypse of 1962 Prologue Fortunately for a generation of post-war historians seeking to explain how World War III came about, there is a fairly abundant amount of sources available. This may seem surprising given the enormous amount of devastation inflicted by...

Fact 1: Crimea has, to put it bluntly, a profoundly long and complicated history. Fact 2: One of the players in that history is Nikita Khrushchev, whose actions involving the region were out of affection for his native Ukraine. Fact 3: During the later years of Stalin, there were discussions in...

Let's assume that Nikita Khrushchev dies from a random shell or from an accident at Stalingrad, leaving him out of contention for succeeding Stalin by virtue of being dead, so who succeeds Stalin in such a scenario? What would the USSR look like under this alternate successor to Stalin? Do we...

What if Khrushchev had died sometime around the 1940's, before he could ascend across the Soviet government? Would Stalin end up being succeeded by a general secretary with a similar political mind to him? If so, then i ask, Who is most likely to succeed Stalin as leader of the USSR? Beria...

Khrushchev's secret speech and the purge of the party in service to de-Stalinization was a fairly major turning point in the evolution of Communism and the Soviet Union. To some extent, I think some degree of "de-Stalinization" was inevitable. Not even the most amoral and blood-soaked of...

According to his wikipedia page, Nikolai Podgorny was Khrushchev's chosen successor. Of course, in OTL, Brezhnev successfully conspired to eject Khrushchev and Podgorny's career went down a different path. But what if Podgorny somehow manages to succeed his patron, and there is no Brezhnev...

Here's my question. On the night of November 1-2, 1956 both G. Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev boarded a flight to Island of Brioni in Yugoslavia to inform Josip Tito about the impending invasion of Hungry to put down the rebellion. I guess they also wanted to assure Tito that the tanks would not...

I've been looking through the search function, but that doesn't really turn up anything. I'm specifically interested in TLs or at least PoDs that lead to the US backing the British and French over Nasser or at least not throwing them under the bus. If there aren't any such TLs, then what would...

On July 15, 1959 Polish electrician Stanisław Jaros performed unsuccessful assasination attempt on Nikita Khrushchev and Władysław Gomułka. What if he succeeded and killed at least Khrushchev on that day?