Book Talk: A Different Russia
Dec. 2, 2024, 4:30-6:00pm
Online
Marvin Kalb (Brookings Institution) talks to the Davis Center's Mark Kramer about his new book, A Different Russia, detailing the Cold War relationship between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F. Kennedy.
Kalb's new book bristles with exciting stories of the building Khrushchev/Kennedy confrontation, starting with the Congo and the Bay of Pigs, moving on to the Sino-Soviet split and the Cuban missile crisis. What have we learned from this running confrontation, which once brought the world to the edge of a nuclear war? Would Putin do what Khrushchev did to start and stop the Cuban crisis?
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