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Sixty Years since the Overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev: Lessons from a Coup in a Soviet-Style Dictatorship
Sat, November 23, 4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 4th Floor, Grand Ballroom Salon ESession Submission Type: Panel
Brief Description
The panel is devoted to the 60th anniversary of the overthrow of the supreme Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. This event was unique in the history of the Soviet state, but the way it was carried out also points to some fundamental power aspects of the Soviet and post-Soviet system, which go beyond its originally planned meaning.
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The Ouster and Execution of Lavrentii Beria - Mark Nathan Kramer, Harvard U
How Khruschev's Foreign Policy Was Used by His Accusers in Order to Remove Him - Svetlana Vitalievna Savranskaya, George Washington U
Coup d'état in KGB Style?: The Role of the KGB in the Overthrow of Khrushchev and in the First Years of the Constitution of Brezhnev's Power - Tomas Sniegon, U of Lund (Sweden)
Comparing Communist Leaders’ Ousters (Khrushchev and Gorbachev) with a Possible Ouster of a Post-Communist Leader (Putin) - William Chase Taubman, Amherst College
