HIST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: 20Th Congress Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
20 Feb 2018
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This module explores a tense and often deemed a dangerous phase of the cold war which occurred after stalin"s death. Even though the soviet union began to leave aspects of stalin"s legacy in the past, new venues of confrontation were created. The environment in which these confrontations occurred were a result of decolonization and the collapse and disintegration of. What also occurred was a clash of optimisms as both the soviet and the us leaders believed their economy and military were stronger than their opponent. Of course, those were not the sole reasons for their optimisms, they also believed their values, principles and world visions were superior to one another. It wasn"t until the idea of mutually assured destruction (mad) that would compel both to re-examine some of their assumptions, unless they wished to face nuclear annihilation. Nikita khruschev took the podium of the 20th communist party congress in 1956, three years after stalin"s death.
