Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
How the CIA used jazz greats as cover for a 1961 coup in Africa
Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...
‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ Director: Our World’s Problems Go Well Beyond Trump and the Republicans
Grimonprez is his own eclectic mix. A cultural theorist preoccupied with mass media and fear; a fast-talking professorial ...
The purge has begun (in case no one has noticed)
Some of the early actions of the new Trump administration are very ominous.
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Nikita Khrushchev’s Son Watched his Father Lose the Space Race. 50 Years After the Moon Landing, He Holds No Grudge
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Three Years After "We Will Bury You," Nikita Khrushchev Tours America
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled across the United States, meeting Americans from New York to Iowa to California. The Gory Origins of Valentine's Day (02:50) National Treasure ...
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Three Years After "We Will Bury You," Nikita Khrushchev Tours America
Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Nikita-in-Hollywood.html As part of a diplomatic mission, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled ...