Anastas Mikoyan was an Armenian Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev eras. During Stalin's rule, he was awarded several high governmental posts, including Minister of Trade. He made several important trips to China, North Korea, Cuba, and the United States. After Stalin's death, he helped Nikita Khrushchev with his de-Stalinization policy. During Brezhnev's time, Mikoyan was appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1964 until his retirement in 1965.
Sergey Radchenko and David Wolff on the difficult but important exchanges between the CCP and CPSU prior to Mao Zedong's famous winter 1949-1950 visit to the Soviet Union.
Drawing on a new tranche of Soviet documents, Sergey Radchenko offers a riveting narrative of the attempted overthrow of Kim Il Sung in 1956, an event that redefined North Korea's relations with Beijing and Moscow.
Based on secret transcripts of top-level diplomacy undertaken by the number-two Soviet leader, Anastas Mikoyan, the Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis rewrites conventional history.
