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K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-497-2. Khrushchev, Sergei (2000). Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower. The Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-01927-7. Taubman, William (2003). Khrushchev: The Man and His Era.
Khrushchev's phrase was used as the title of Jan Šejna's book on communist Cold War strategies, [19] and a 1962 documentary called We'll Bury You. [20] The phrase appears in Sting's song "Russians" (1985). [21] In the opening scene of the 2020 film The Courier, Khrushchev closes his speech with the same words. [22]
K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist (2009) is a book by Peter Carlson published by PublicAffairs describing the 1959 state visit by Nikita Khrushchev to the United States.
During the third visit, in which Nixon and Khrushchev toured a model American kitchen, the two men began an unplanned debate. Nixon's opening argument to the Kitchen Debate rested on United States' appreciation for housewives; he stressed that offering women the opportunity to reside in a comfortable home, through having the appliances be directly-installed, was an example of American superiority.
The same evening, the delegates of foreign communist parties were called to the Kremlin and given the opportunity to read the prepared text of the Khrushchev speech, which was treated as a top secret state document. [11] On 1 March, the text of the Khrushchev speech was distributed in printed form to senior Central Committee functionaries. [12]
Read the full text of the speech as he delivered it that day: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
While Khrushchev's responsibility lay in political affairs, he involved himself in the practicalities of resuming full production at the mine after the chaos of the war years. He helped restart the machines (key parts and papers had been removed by the pre-Soviet mine-owners) and he wore his old mine outfit for inspection tours.
Read below for the full text of Lincoln's address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition ...