AHC and WI: Kruschev Stays in Power

With a PoD no earlier than 1964*, how does Kruschev stay on as head of the USSR until his death in 1971 (or 1969 at the earliest).

What would be the effects of his extended Premiership?

*unless it includes doing away with JFK's assassination and no PoD's earlier
 
I think having a more successful Virgin Lands campaign and no experiment in corn would do wonders.

Have Kruscheav NOT try to be on nuclear parity with the USA, he only needs enough nukes to destroy America once, allowing him to downsize the conventional military like he originally wanted to in order to bring more money for everything else.

Keep the politburo a rubber stamp institution, this can stop the rise of Brezhnev and allow him to have more control over the industry, allowing him to scale down heavy industry like he wanted and focus on consumer production.

Those 3 points would be the best things I can think of, however the last one goes against the "Khrushchev thaw" and makes him more totalitarian then he himself wanted.
 
I can see him having to crack down a little bit on internal dissent/dissatisfaction regarding his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I can see the USA getting a little more cheeky with the Soviet Union for a while after the Cuban Missile Crisis but with Khrushchev still in power.

Also, assuming we still have the JFK assassination in this timeline, it'd be interesting to see how an ascendant Johnson deals with Khrushchev, still a Vietnam intervention of course, might even be some reluctance on the USSR's part to use Vietnam as a proxy as readily as they did the Cubans.
 
Well it should be remembered that unlike Russian support for the madman Castro who was seen as willing to start Armageddon to spite America, the role of the USSR in supporting Vietnam was popular with the Soviet Public and they weren't intervening directly.
 
Yep, but I'm just wondering with Khruschev around how it would be perceived by the Soviet public, sort of like how we throw around the "Iraq is a new Vietnam" type of thing here.
 
Also in matters relating to the Space Race, I could also see Chelomei's design bureau becoming more active and also his proposed lunar landing program and the UR heavy boosters. This could be a better and more working substitute for the ill-fated N-1 booster from the Korolev design bureau.
 
I think having a more successful Virgin Lands campaign and no experiment in corn would do wonders.

That would be against the OP, as those programs were started very early in his Premiership.

Keep the politburo a rubber stamp institution, this can stop the rise of Brezhnev and allow him to have more control over the industry, allowing him to scale down heavy industry like he wanted and focus on consumer production... however [this] goes against the "Khrushchev thaw" and makes him more totalitarian then he himself wanted.

Agreed, so that's out too.

Have Kruscheav NOT try to be on nuclear parity with the USA, he only needs enough nukes to destroy America once, allowing him to downsize the conventional military like he originally wanted to in order to bring more money for everything else.

This I can see -- it would certainly help calm things down a little, and give him some maneuverability.

I can see him having to crack down a little bit on internal dissent/dissatisfaction regarding his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I can see the USA getting a little more cheeky with the Soviet Union for a while after the Cuban Missile Crisis but with Khrushchev still in power.

Could anyone expand on this?
 
I suppose we could see Khrushchev keeping the Politburo rubber-stamp like until he is done with nukes and virgin land is well under way, so when he is done and he opens up the politburo it might throw back already made progress a bit, but the thaw comes later then OTL, however it is more likely to take effect as many of his other initiatives have come to fruition.
 
Found myself thinking about this again. If Kruschev does avert a coup in October of 64, how long could he stick around?

As to the how -- bearing that I realize Nikita made huge blunders with his country, and plenty of enemies -- could Kruschev have stopped the plot just been around more? (I ask, b/c he was only in Moscow for five of the last nine months of his rule.)
 
With a PoD no earlier than 1964*, how does Kruschev stay on as head of the USSR until his death in 1971 (or 1969 at the earliest).

What would be the effects of his extended Premiership?

*unless it includes doing away with JFK's assassination and no PoD's earlier

He sends Brezhnev and senior members of the Politburo on a fact finding visit to North Vietnam. The Plane develops 'mechanical problems' and crashes in China killing all aboard. Very 'tragic' and could be arranged.
 

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He sends Brezhnev and senior members of the Politburo on a fact finding visit to North Vietnam. The Plane develops 'mechanical problems' and crashes in China killing all aboard. Very 'tragic' and could be arranged.
That would require Khrushchev to not be Khrushchev. He was very proud of the fact that he’d taken the Soviet Union away from the days of Stalin, where subordinates lived in constant fear that the leader would order their execution; he saw it as his most lasting achievement.
 
Thinking this idea over, I'm leaning toward the idea that if Kruschev had gotten wind of Brezhnev's conspiring, he'd take measures to nip him in the bud, but he'd still be so unpopular (without being willing to take the harsh measures to crush opposition) that his rule would only be extended about two years...
 
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