“I would want to live all my life in Paris if there was not this earth which is called Moscow,” said Nikita Khrushchev in Paris last week, quoting the Russian poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky. But though ...

How did it really happen? Pieced together from reports in the non-Russian Communist press and triangulated by a few facts gleaned by Westerners in Moscow, the story of Nikita Khrushchev’s fall is ...