
- •Contents
- •Acknowledgments
- •Abbreviations and Acronyms
- •THE MEMOIRS
- •Before and After the Peace Treaty with Austria
- •Meeting with Adenauer (September 1955)
- •The Visit to Great Britain
- •Beginning of the Visit to the United States
- •From New York to Iowa
- •Washington and Camp David
- •The Visit to France
- •The Visit to the United Nations
- •John Kennedy and the Berlin Wall
- •The Cuban Missile Crisis
- •On the Road to Socialism
- •Mao Zedong
- •Ho Chi Minh
- •Albania
- •Germany
- •Hungary
- •Czechoslovakia
- •Romania
- •India
- •Burma
- •India, Afghanistan, Iran, and Again India
- •Indonesia
- •Egypt
- •The Six Day War in the Middle East
- •From Syria to Yemen
- •How Khrushchev Subdued America
- •Biographies
- •Index

Index
Abakumov, Yehor Trofimovich, 19, 29n16 Acheson, Dean G., 158, 187n3
Adenauer, Konrad, NK’s meeting with, 41–42,
55–64, 56, 60–62, 64n12, 213
Afghanistan, 763–67, 885 Aidit, Dipa, 788, 804, 805, 806
air travel, over East Germany, NK discussing,
572–73
Al-Badr, Muhammad, 70, 871–73 Albania, 478–79
Greece and, 517–18
Soviet relations with, 509–27 Alekseyev, Aleksandr, 317, 340, 357n11
Algeria, Republic of, 197–98, 880–82, 886nn6–7 Algerian Communist Party, 833, 857n39, 881, 886n11 Alliluyeva, Anna, 583–84
Amer, Abdel Hakim, 809, 810, 855n1 Anders, Wladyslaw, 594
Andropov, Yuri, 478–79
Aref, Abdel Salam, 832, 835, 836
Arnold, Karl, 57, 60, 64nn4, 9
As-Salal, Abdel, 832, 834–35, 856, 856n37 Aswan High Dam, 825–34, 856n29 Aung San, 752, 761n4
Austria
USSR’s peace treaty with, 3–28 withdrawal of Soviet troops from, 20–21
Bagdash, Khalid, 819, 821, 855nn13, 15 Bakayev, Viktor Georgyevich, 332, 358n31 Balewa, Abubakar Tafawa, 202n20, 274–76 Balluku, 519, 521
Bandera, Stepan, 592–93
Bandrowska, Wanda, 591
Bandung Conference, 465, 495n2, 725 Barak, Rudolf, 684, 697n33
Batista, Fulgencio, 317–18 Bay of Pigs invasion, 320–21
Belisheva, Liri, 478–79, 522, 527n18
Ben Bella, Ahmed, 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 856n36,
880–82, 886nn9–10
Benes, Edvard, 685, 887n34 Ben-Gurion, David, 88, 90n27, 666, 815
Beria, Lavrenty Pavlovich, 32, 402, 484, 522, 535
Berlin, NK’s visit to, 49 Berling, Zygmunt, 594, 595 Berlin Wall, building of, 310–14 Berman, Jakub, 609–10, 619, 621 Bevan, Aneurin, 84, 90n25
Bezzubik, Vladimir Grigoryevich, 261, 291n5 Bidault, Georges, 192
Bierut, Boleslaw, 386, 597, 601, 604–5, 607–8,
612–15, 620–22
Biryuzov, Sergei Semyonovich, 237–38, 257,
330–31, 358n30
Black Hundreds, 585 Bodnaras, Emil, 704, 706
Bohlen, Charles E., 60–61, 63, 64n8
Bor-Komorowski, Tadeusz, 610, 611 Boumédienne, Houari, 880, 882 Boussac, Jacques, 219–22, 234–35n45
Brandt, Willy, 27–28, 29–30n28, 302, 307–8, 314n18 Bratislava, Slovakia, NK’s vist to, 24–25
brick making, NK’s interest in, 21–22 Bridges, Harry, 118, 129n27 brinkmanship, 40
Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich, 32, 33, 34–35,
47, 48, 52, 54n6, 421–22, 434n6, 595 visit to Great Britain with NK, 65, 68, 70,
73–74, 79
visit to India with NK, 732–33 Bulgaria, 324
agriculture in, 448–50
organization of communes in, 447–48 relations with Yugoslavia, 543–44
Burma, 751–63
Cachin, Marcel, 228, 678, 696n12 Camp David, 97–98, 164–68, 187n10
NK’s vist to, 169–73, 177–78 Carey, James B., 129n30
Caribbean crisis. See Cuban Missile crisis Carter, Victor, 108
Castro Ruz, Fidel, 315–16
Cuban Missile crisis and, 342–49 meeting NK at United Nations, 270–72
Castro Ruz, Raul, 315, 357n57 Ceausescu, Nicolae, 704
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Cepicka, Alexej, 683–84, 697n29 Chaban-Delmas, Jacques, 199–200 Chamberlain, Neville, 223
Chang Tsolin, 407, 411n20 Chelm, Poland, NK’s visit to, 602
Chen Yi, 467–69, 495n8, 524, 527n21
NK’s summary of, 488 Chervenkov, Vylko, 447, 463n15 Chiang Kaishek, 406, 407, 439, 441–42 China
border relations with USSR and, 469–75 building of Soviet radio station in, 455–57 collectivization of agriculture in, 440–41 “great leap forward “ period in, 446–47,
450–51, 452 industry in, 441
NK on events in, 489–94
organization of communes in, 447, 450 peace movement and, 476–78
reaction of, to Twentieth Party Congress,
428–29
relations with India, 464–69 requests for arms and, 442–46 slogans in, 447
USSR’s relations with, 401–3, 466–97 worsening USSR relations with, 435–64
Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 481–82 peace movement and, 476–78
Chinese Eastern Railway, 427–28, 433n1 Christopher, George W., 115–17
Churchill, Winston S., 13, 30, 31, 81–82, 180, 188n21,
392, 408, 865
Clay, Lucius, 308, 313
Comecon. See Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA)
Communist Party of Albania, 509 Communist Party of Austria (CPA), 4, 17, 20
USSR’s peace with Austria and, 12 Communist Party of Burma, 752, 762n5 Communist Party of Cuba, 315, 356n2 Communist Party of India, 469, 745, 750n48 Communist Party of Indonesia, 788 Communist Party of Poland, 590 Communist Party of Sweden, 380
Congo crisis, 262–63, 281–82, 291n8, 292n28 converters, for steelmaking, 25–26, 29n24 Council of Mutual Economic Assistance
(CMEA), 389–92
CPA. See Communist Party of Austria (CPA)
Cuban Missile crisis, NK on, 315–59 Cyrankiewicz, Jozef, 389, 432, 608–9, 623–24, 627 Czechoslovakia, 674–98
Daladier, Edouard, 223–24
De Gaulle, Charles, 189, 404 Paris summit and, 245–48
Soviet attitude toward, 189–94 Dejean, Maurice, 196
Deng Xiaoping, 430, 434nn1415, 435, 439, 456, 650
NK’s summary of, 488 Denmark, NK’s visit to, 360–69 Desai, Morarji, 732, 735, 736, 747n21
Dillon, C. Douglas, 160, 162–63, 171, 187n6, 300 Dimitrov, Georgy, 546
Disarmament, discussions on, at Camp David,
171–72
Djilas, Milovan, 510, 526n6, 528–29 Dobrynin, Anatoly Fyodorovich, 338, 340,
358n35
Duclos, Jacques, 189, 219, 228
Dulles, Allen W., 241, 257n8
Dulles, John Foster, 37–38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 54n10,
159, 325, 392, 501, 825, 856n28, 869, 874
Dymshitz, Venyamin, 770–71, 784n17 Dzerzhinsky, Feliks, 583
East Germany (German Democratic Republic), 36, 43–44, 44. See also Germany; West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)
air travel over, 572–73
construction of barriers on border with West Berlin and, 575
establishment of border controls for,
568–72
NK’s visits to, 561–64
Eden, Anthony, 30–31, 42–43, 65, 66, 88, 89n2, 195,
666, 813, 815
NK’s visit to United Kingdom and, 67–68, 78 Egypt
construction of Aswan Dam, 825–34, 856n29 NK on relations with, 809–58
Suez crisis of 1956, 88, 812–14 Egyptian Communist Party, 812 Eisenhower, David, 97, 166 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 33, 34, 395
downing of U-2 plane and, 241–42
at four-power summit in Geneva, 37–38 invitation to NK to visit U.S., 92–94
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NK’s first meeting with, 41–42
NK’s visit to Camp David and, 164–68, 169–73,
177–78
NK’s visit to Gettysburg farm of, 168–69 NK’s visit to White House and, 159–60 Paris summit and, 250–51
reception dinner with NK and, 181–82 Elizabeth II (queen), 71–73, 78–79, 89n14 England. See United Kingdom
Erhard, Ludwig, 466, 580n14 Eritrea, 884, 887n23
Erlander, Tage Fritiof, 377, 383n30 Ethiopia, 884, 887n23
Farkas, Mihaly, 646–47, 648
Farouk (king of Egypt), 667, 809, 855n2 Faure, Edgar, 33, 42, 43, 225
Federal Republic of Germany. See West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)
Feller, Karl F., 129n31 Fierlinger, Zdenek, 680, 696n22 Finland, 51–56
four-power summit, in Geneva. Switzerland,
30–35
Frederick IX (king of Denmark), 366–67, 382n12 French Communist Party, 227–28
Fulbright, William J., 294, 314n2 Furtseva, Yekaterina, 767–68
Gaitskell, Hugh, 84, 85, 90n24 Gandhi, Indira, 726, 740, 746n11, 757 Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 723
Gao Gang, 407, 411n19, 413–14, 434n4, 439
Garst, David, 138, 157n17
Garst, Roswell, 136–48, 150–53, 157n14, 294 Gavrilova, Nadezhda Petrovna, 256 Geneva, Switzerland, four-powr summit in,
30–55
Gerhardson, Einar Henry, 372–74, 382n17 German Democratic Republic. See East Germany
(German Democratic Republic) Germany. See also East Germany (German
Democratic Republic); West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)
division of, 43–44 NK on, 557–80 unification of, 36–37
Gero, Erno, 429, 434n11, 646, 648
Ghaleb, Mohammed Murad, 821, 830–31, 856n24
Ghana, 882–83, 886n15
Gheorghiu-Dej, Gheorghe, 532, 556n10, 700–701,
703, 705, 714
Ghosh, Ajoy Kumar, 495n5
Gitalov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich, 148–49 Golikov, Filipp Nikolai, 586
Gomulka, Wladyslaw, 432, 435n19, 436, 462n4,
556n25, 590, 606–7, 626, 629–31 growing dissatisfication with, 617–20 Hungarian uprising and, 651–52 return to leadership, 624–25
Gottwald, Klement, 397n38, 677, 680–84, 686–87,
695, 696n26
Great Britain. See United Kingdom
Great leap forward period, in China, 446–47,
450–51, 452, 463
Great Terror, 583
Grechko, Andrei Antonovich, 718, 720n39, 831,
856n35
Greece, Albania and, 517–18
Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich, 21, 70, 95, 108, 119,
159, 167, 248, 298–99, 831
Cuban Missile crisis and, 336–37 NK at United Nations and, 277 Paris summit and, 244
at Vienna summit (1960), 304 Gromyko, Lidiya Dimitryevna, 112, 115 Grotewohl, Otto, 561, 575, 580n8, 624 Groza, Petru, 700–701, 701–3, 719nn10–11 Guevara, Ernesto Che, 316, 357n76 Guinea, Republic of, 877–80, 886nn1, 3–4 Gustavus VI (king of Sweden), 377, 383n31
Haile Selassie (emperor of Ethiopia), 884 Hallstein, Walther, 64n6
Hallstein doctrine, 57, 62–63, 64n7 Hammarskjold, Dag, 266, 281–83, 292n11, 293n31 Harriman, W. Averell, 130, 131–35, 156nn2, 8,
157n13
Hassan II (king of Morocco), 272, 292n19, 884–85,
887n27
Herter, Christian, 158, 187n2, 250
Ho Chi Minh, 225, 498–508, 507n1
Hoxha, Enver, 479, 496n28, 502, 519, 520, 521, 526n11
Hughes, John, 66, 89n4 Hungarian Communist Party, 644 Hungary, 429–30
1956 uprising in, 647–53
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Hungary (continued)
NK on relations with, 644–74
Tito’s reactions to events in, 540–41
Husak, Gustav, 690, 694, 698n44
Ibarruri, Dolores, 267, 269, 292n14, 502, 508n10,
523
Ilf, Ilya, 128n15
Ilyichev, Ivan Ivanovich, 28–29n10
India, 723–50, 769. See also Nehru, Jawaharlal Bhilai steel mill in, 769–73
relations with China, 464–69 Indonesia, 785–809
Iowa, NK’s visit to, 136–56 Iran, 777–78
Iraq, 813, 820
Israel, 864–65
Jiang Qing, 436, 462n5, 486–87
John Deere Company, 126–27, 129n34
Johnson, Lyndon B., 353–54, 359n47, 393
Johnston, Eric, 165–66, 187n9
Kadar, Janos, 646–47, 655–56, 657–58, 667–71
Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich, 19–20, 29n15, 497n39
Kang Sheng, 430, 435, 484, 488, 497n34, 650
Karbyshev, Dmitry Mikhailovich, 26, 29n25 Kardelj, Edvard, 437, 463, 510, 526n5, 528, 535 Kassem, Abdel Karim, 820, 824, 855n18 Keita, Modibo, 883–84, 887n17
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 304 Kennedy, John F., 104, 314n7
assassination of, 353 Berlin Wall and, 293–315
construction of Berlin Wall and, 575
Cuban Missile crisis and, 319–59, 350–51 meeting in Vienna with NK, 298–315 NK’s opinion of, 286–87
Kennedy, Robert F., 104, 358n36 Cuban Missile crisis and, 338–39
Khrulyov, Andrei Vasilyevich, 595 Khrushchev, Nikita
assigned to Warsaw after WWII, 603–5 attitude of, toward United Nations, 284–89 Fidel Castro and, 342–49
evaluation of John F. Kennedy, 354–55 first meeting with Eisenhower and, 41–42 foreign visits by (see specific country) impressions of Eisenhower, 35, 38–39
impressions of Paris, 197 impressions of Vienna, 22–24
“kitchen debate” with Nixon and, 182–85 opinion of de Gaulle, 226–28
opinion of John F. Kennedy, 286–87 opinions of, on U. S., 37–38
Paris summit and, 243–58 on peace, 174
reception dinner with Eisenhower and, 181–82 on relations with foreign countries (see
specific country)
relations with Molotov and, 9–10 repayment of lend-lease debt and, 159–64 spy flights and, 255–57
Khrushchev, Nina Petrovna (wife), 95, 108, 127n6,
196, 379–80
Khrushchev, Sergei (son), 79–80, 795
Kiesinger, Kurt Georg, 57, 60, 64n3 Kim Il Sung, 417
King, Martin Luther, 104
Kir, Félix, 200, 252, 476–77 kitchen debates, 182–85 Kliszko, Zenon, 620
Konev, Ivan Stepanovich, 308–9, 312–13, 629, 651 Korea. See North Korea
Korneichuck, Aleksandr Yevdokimovich, 608 Kosygin, Aleksei Nikolayevich, 20, 20n29, 25, 220 Kovalyov, Ivan Vladimirovich, 412, 433n1 Kozlov, Frol, 92–93, 127, 127n3
Kreisky, Bruno, 13, 17, 28n9, 299, 307, 314n12 NK’s impressions of, 27
Krinitsky, Aleksandr Ivanovich, 582, 583 Krishna Menon, Vengalil Krishnan, 726, 730,
746n9
Kudryavtsev, Sergei M., 317 Kun, Bela, 644
Kurasov, Vladimir Vasilyevich, 21, 22, 29n21 Kurchatov, Igor Vasilyevich, 65, 70, 80, 95 Kutuzov, Mikhail Illarionovich, 743, 749n43 Kuusinen, Otto Vilgelmovich, 327–28, 358n24 Kuznetsov, Vasily, 475
labor, productivity, NK discussing, 576–78 Labour Party, NK’s visit to United Kingdom and,
84–85
LaGuardia, Fiorello, 179, 188nn19–20 Larsen, Axel, 362–63, 382nn6–7 laundry facilities, NK’s interest in, 22 Lebanon, 871
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Le Duan, 505, 506, 508n13
Lenart, Jozef, 687, 698n39
lend-lease debt, repayment of, 159–64, 171, 187nn4–5 Lenin, Vladimir, 15
Leonova, Valentina Ivanovna, 801 Lie, Trygve Halvdan, 281, 292nn25–27
Linz-Donawitz converters, 25–26, 29n24
Liu Shaoqi, 398, 413, 428, 430, 434n2, 435, 439, 501–2, 650
NK’s summary of, 487
Lloyd, John Selwyn Brooke, 42, 67, 68, 70, 81,
89n5, 813
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 107–8, 113–14, 123–24, 128,
295
Lodz, Poland, NK’s visit to, 605–6 Loga-Sowinski, Ignacy, 620
Los Angeles, California, NK’s visit to, 103–13 Luca, Vasile, 701, 703, 719n16
Lumumba, Patrice Emery, 262, 291n7 Lvov, Poland, 587–88, 612–13
MacDuffie, Marshall, 179–80, 188n18 Macmillan, Harold, 67, 81, 89n6, 195, 257n12, 286
Paris summit and, 245, 250–51
Malenkov, Georgy Maksimilianovich, 6, 32, 532,
595–97
Mali, Republic of, 883–84, 887n17 Malik, Adam, 790–91
Malinovsky, Rodion Yakovlevich, 237, 242, 244,
248–50, 358n26, 456
Cuban Missile crisis and, 329–30, 343–45 Manuilsky, Dmitry Zakharovich, 677–78, 696n11,
703
Mao Zedong, 224–25, 387–88, 397–409, 411n23, 456
“great leap forward “ period and, 446–47 Hungarian uprising and, 650–61 international conference in Moscow (1957)
and, 435–40 NK and, 458–62
NK’s summary of, 482–87 personal characteristics of, 423–24 on Stalin, 483–84
Stalin’s attitude toward, 401–3
trip to Soviet Union for Stalin’s birthday,
412–18
Yugoslavia and, 554
Markov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich, 802 Marseilles, France, NK’s vist to, 202–5 Maurer, Ion Gheorge, 714, 716–17
Mazurov, Kirill, 278
McCarthy, Joseph, 295
Mendès-France, Pierre, 225, 501, 508n7
Menshikov, Mikhail Alekseyevich, 94, 106, 127n4,
181–82
Mesta, Perle, 129n35
Michael (king of Romania), 700, 701, 719n9
Mickiewicz, Adam, 633
Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw, 610–12
Mikoyan, Anastas Ivanovich, 6, 28n3, 71, 123, 316,
410n9, 512, 631–32, 725–26, 746n6
Cuban Missile crisis and, 328, 342–43
Hungarian uprising and, 648–49
peace treaty with Austria and, 11
on relations with Yugoslavia, 533
Minc, Hilary, 609–10, 621
Mindszenty, Jozsef (primate of Hungary), 667
Mollet, Guy, 88, 90n27, 194–95, 225, 229–30, 666,
815
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, 5, 28n2, 32–33,
47, 48, 52, 74, 192, 512, 533, 657, 725, 746n5
excluded from Stalin’s inner circle, 7–8
opposition to peace treaty with Austria by,
7–11
elations with NIK and, 9–10
Mongolia, 470–71, 495n16, 496n17
Morocco, 884–85
Morozov, Savva, 149, 157n25, 222
Munnich, Ferenc, 647, 655–56, 657–58, 662–63
Nagy, Imre, 429, 434nn11–12, 646, 647–49, 651, 664–65
Nakhimov, Pavel Stepanovich, 742–43, 749n43 Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 809, 810, 818–24, 831, 834–38,
841–47, 854n1, 856n21, 873–75
Six Day War, 860–67 Nasution, Abdul Haris, 789, 804
NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 43, 269, 273–74, 464–65, 723,
724–28, 736, 743–44, 750n45, 757, 767
New Economic Plans, 19
Ne Win, 758–61, 763n16
New York City, NK’s visit to, 130–31
Nigeria, 274–76, 292n20, 830
Nixon, Julie, 166
Nixon, Richard M., 2l93, 106–7, 125, 128n17, 166,
294–95
“kitchen debate” with NK and, 182–85
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Nkrumah, Kwame, 882–83, 886nn12, 14, 16 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 36,
392–93, 397n12
North Korea, 416–17 Norway, NK’s visit to, 369–75
Novotny, Antonin, 436, 462n3, 684–85, 687,
688–91, 693, 697n32
Ochab, Eduard, 622–23, 625–27
Olshansky, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 146, 157n23
Osobka-Morawski, Eduard, 601, 605
Pakistan, 737
Paris, France, NK’s impressions of, 197 Paris summit, 243–58
Pauker, Ana, 701, 703–4, 719nn14–15 Peace, NK on, 174
Peace movement, 476–78 Peng Chen, 488–89, 497n43 Peng Dehuai, 489
Pervukhin, Mikhail Georgyevich, 310, 315n26,
580n17
Petrov, Yevgeny, 128n15 Pham Van Dong, 500, 508n4 Pilsudski, Jozef, 582, 583, 584
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, NK’s visit to, 122–25 Pliyev, Issa Aleksandrovich, 330, 358n29 Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich, 278
Poland, 581–644 anti-Sovietism in, 631–33
normalization of relations with, 432–33 repayments for coal and, 631–32
Soviet relations with, 581–95
Stalin’s attitude toward, after World War II,
616–17
Tito’s reactions to events in, 540–41 Ukraine and, 586–600
Ponomaryov, Boris Nikolayevich, 650 Popovic, Koci, 535–36, 553, 556n12 Posokhin, Mikhail, 548, 556n22 Powers, Gary, 239, 257n7, 295–96 Prasad, Rajendra, 728–29, 746n8
Raab, Julius, 13, 16–17, 28n8
Radhakrishnan, Sarvapalli, 726, 746n8
Rakosi, Matyas, 429, 434n11, 540–41, 556n17,
644–46, 647–48
Rankovic, Aleksandar, 437, 463, 530, 553, 556n27,
654
Redens, Stanislaw, 583–84
Reuther, Walter, 119–22, 129n28
Rochet, Waldeck, 228
Rockefeller, Nelson, 35, 41–42, 130, 131, 156n5
Roerich, Svyatoslav, 738, 748n30
Rokossovsky, Konstantin, 595, 627–28, 634
Rola-Zymierski, Michal, 597, 601
Romania, 276, 389, 636, 698–720
Rusk, Dean, 299, 304–5, 314n13, 336
Sabry, Ali, 847
Said, Nuri, 820, 855n19, 871 Salisbury, Harrison, 142
San Francisco, California, NK’s visit to, 115–22 Schmidt, Helmut, 61, 64n5
Sékou Touré, Ahmed, 877–79, 883, 886nn2, 5 Semyonov, Vladimir Semyonovich, 569, 580n18 Serov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, 592, 729–30, 747 Shehu, Mehmet, 479, 496n27, 519, 521, 527n16 Shevchenko, Andrei Stepanovich, 137 Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 95, 127, 381,
383n29
Sikorsky, Igor, 164, 187n8 Sino-Indian conflict, 464–69, 495n6 Siroky, Viliam, 687, 697n37, 698n43 Six Day War, 859–67
Skarbek, Boleslaw, 581–82, 583
Slansky, Rudolf, 683, 696n26 Socialism, NK on, 385–97 Sohlman, Rolf, 376, 382n28 Somalia, 884, 887
Soong Chingling, 435, 462n1
Soviet Union. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Spychalski, Marian, 432, 435n19, 603, 620, 641n45,
643-44nn69–70, 78
Stalin, Joseph, 173
attitude of, toward Mao, 401–3, 412 decision-making process under, 6 as man of genius, 15
Mao on, 483–84
peace treaty with Austria and, 5–6 Poland after World War II and, 616–17 policies toward Poland of, 584–85 relations with Tito, 5
Stevenson, Adlai, 137–38, 145, 157n16, 294 Stoica, Chivu, 704, 719n21
Subandrio, 790–93
Suez crisis, 194–95, 429, 649, 666, 812–14
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Sukarno, Ahmed, 786–88, 790, 793, 795–801 Sukhodryov, Viktor Mikhailovich, 247, 257n12 Sun Yatsen, 406, 410nn15–16
Suslov, Mikhail Andreyevich, 532, 533, 648 Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich, 743 Svoboda, Ludvik, 679, 683–86, 696n18
Syria, 813, 819–20, 868–71
Syrian Communist Party, 819, 855n13
Szczecin (former German city of Stettin), 637–38
Thant, U, 283–84, 293n30, 349
Thompson, Llewellyn E., 111
Thorez, Maurice, 192, 193, 208, 219, 228, 231, 251, 878
Tibet, 468, 495n14
Timoshenko, Semyon Konstantinovich, 586 Tito, Josip Broz, 5, 37, 62–63, 387, 431, 510, 526n2,
537–38, 555n9, 617–18
Hungarian uprising and, 653–57
NK and, 527–30, 547, 552–54 relations with Egypt and, 811–12 visit to India, 724
Togliatti, Palmiro, 541, 556n18, 678, 696n13 Tolstoy, Leo, 723, 731
Touré, Sékou, 216–17 trade, 175–76
Tshombe, Moise, 262, 291n8
TU-114 plane, 96, 98–99, 127nn4–5, 185–86
Tupolev, Andrei Nikolayevich, 96
Turyanitsa, Ivan Ivanovich, 679
Twentieth Party Congress, Chinese reaction to,
428–29
Twenty-First Party Congress (USSR), 450–51 Twenty-Second Party Congress (USSR), 57
U Ba Swe, 752, 762n6
Ukraine, relations with Poland and, 586–600 Ulbricht, Walter, 309–10, 315n25, 561–62, 564, 567,
576, 580n7
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) agricultural colleges in, 153–55
border relations with China, 469–75 building railroad to China, 427–28 early relations with China, 412–33 New Economic Policy (NEP) in, 19 peace treay with Austria, 3–28 postwar relations with France, 194–96
signing of peace treaty with West Germany,
57–58
United Kingdom, NK’s visit to, 65–90
United Nations, NK’s visit to, 258–93 United States
NK’s visit to, 91–130
Soviet peace with Austria and, 14
U Nu, 751, 752, 757–61, 763n21
Ushakov, Fyodor Fyodorovich, 743, 749n43 U-2 spy plane, downing of, 237–41
USSR. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Vatutin, Nikolai Fyodorovich, 679 Vermeersch, Jeannette, 219, 231, 251
Vienna, Austria, NK’s impressions of, 22–24 Vienna summit (1960), 298–315
Vietnam, 498–508 Vinogradov, Sergei, 194, 226
Voroshilov, 533, 688, 703, 767–69 Vukmanovic, 538–39, 553–54 Vyshinsky, 5
Wagner, Robert F., 130, 156n2
Wang Ming, 407, 411n22, 484, 497n33
Warsaw, liberation of, 610–11 Warsaw Pact, 392, 397n11
founding of, 394 structure of, 395
Washington, D.C., NK’s visit to, 180–81 Wasilewska, Wanda, 588–89, 590–91, 594, 597,
607–8, 616
West Berlin, 564
West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany), 43, 213, 558–60. See also East Germany (German Democratic Republic); Germany
economic boom in, 566–67
peace treaty with Soviet Union, 57–58 Wilson, Harold, 84, 90n26
Winzer, Otto, 576, 580n21 Witos, Andrzej, 600
Wu Peifu, 407, 411n21
Yakovlev, Nikolai Dmitriyevich, 586–87
Yakubovsky, Ivan Ignatyevich, 308, 314n23
Yemen
relations with, 871–75
Soviet arm sales to, 70
Yezhov, 535, 585
Yudin, Pavel Fyodorovich, 398–99, 410nn4–5, 455,
456, 494, 510, 526n4, 529–30, 555n4
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Yugoslavia, 527–56
breaking of relations with, 529–32 relations with Bulgaria, 543–44 restoring relations with, 534–37 USSR’s relations with, 394, 509–10
Zambrowski, Roman, 619–20
Zapotocky, Antonin, 685, 687, 697n28
Zasyadko, Aleksandr Fyodorovich, 453, 464n21
Zavenyagin, Avraamy Pavlovich, 677
Zawadzki, Aleksander, 590, 622–23, 627, 629–30
Zheltov, Aleksei Stepanovich, 701, 719n13
Zhivkov, Todor Khristov, 324, 326, 358n23
Zhou Enlai, 413, 418–19, 427, 431–32, 435, 440, 452–54, 466–68, 500
building of railroad to USSR and, 427–28 NK’s summary of, 487–88
Zhu De, 407, 411n18, 439
NK’s summary of, 488
Zhukov, Yuri Aleksandrovich, 34, 47, 52–53, 119,
129
meeting with Eisenhower, 40 NK on memoirs of, 410n12, 513
Zilliacus, Konni, 90n28
Zyryanov, Pavel Ivanovich, 475, 496n21
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