Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary by Aleksandr Fursenko & Timothy Naftali

Author:Aleksandr Fursenko & Timothy Naftali [Fursenko, Aleksandr]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-10-24T22:00:00+00:00

THE FIRST ELEVEN months of 1960 had taught Khrushchev some hard lessons about the perils of establishing new allies in the third world. He assumed the United States had connived with Hammarskjöld to neutralize Lumumba and had a lot of evidence that Washington was trying to overthrow Castro. There could be no doubt that the administration was at least determined to deny Moscow any and all of these new allies. If Moscow wanted to continue winning new allies, Khrushchev understood that political and economic competition might not be enough. He had to be prepared to take some military risks. Southeast Asia, an area that previously he had left to the Chinese and the North Vietnamese, would be the proving ground for this new form of the strategy of peaceful coexistence.

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