Format:
XXII, 589 S.
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Kt.
ISBN:
9780804762014
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0804762015
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9780804762021
,
0804762023
Series Statement:
Cold War international history project series
Content:
This book rewrites the conventional history of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis by drawing on secret transcripts of top-level diplomacy undertaken by Anastas Mikoyan, the number-two Soviet leader under Nikita Khrushchev. The crisis of the "missiles of October" actually stretched beyond the "13 days" and into November, as the Soviets secretly planned to leave more than a hundred tactical nuclear weapons in Cuba – until Fidel Castro's obstreperous behavior made them reverse their decision. Author Sergo Mikoyan accompanied his father Anastas as a personal secretary during a 1960 visit establishing Soviet-Cuban relations and during the 1962 crisis wrap-up negotiations in Washington and New York. This account draws on Sergo's personal expierences, his father's reminiscences, and Soviet documentation such as his father's cables from Havana; memoranda of conversations with Castro, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and UN Secretary-General U Thant; and notes on internal Kremlin deliberations.
Note:
Enth. Literaturangaben und ein Reg
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Introduction : the overlooked crisis between Moscow and Havana -- Why Mikoyan? -- The journey across the ocean : the Soviet discovery of Cuba -- Ten days that changed the face of the hemisphere -- The leap over the ocean -- Operation Anadyr : military success, political trap -- When the world was hanging by a thread -- Storm clouds over Havana -- Mikoyan face to face with Fidel -- Drawing conclusions in the United States -- Postscript / by Svetlana Savranskaya -- Documents.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Castro, Fidel 1926-2016
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Mikojan, Anastas Ivanovič 1895-1978
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Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963
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Chruščëv, Nikita Sergeevič 1894-1971
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Kubakrise
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Geschichte
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Quelle
