The Reformer Ousted

Swain, Geoffrey

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-33551-7_9

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“…13 Swain's biography of Khrushchev states similarly, "There is no doubt that the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis weakened Khrushchev's position." 14 As this article demonstrates through empirical evidence, however, these arguments and previous empirical analyses do not adequately explain politics during the late Khrushchev era. First, until the moment Khrushchev was ousted, he was an exceptionally powerful leader.…”

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“You Don't Know Khrushchev Well”

Torigian¹

2022

Journal of Cold War Studies

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The ouster of Nikita Khrushchev in October 1964 was a key moment in the history of elite politics in one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Yet political scientists and historians have long seemed uninterested in Khrushchev's downfall, regarding it as the largely “inevitable” result of his supposedly unpopular policies. Archival sources that have recently come to light cast serious doubt on this assessment and demonstrate new ways of measuring contingency. By showing the countermeasures Khrushchev could have taken, the importance of timing, and the sense among the plotters that their move was highly risky, this article demonstrates that Khrushchev's defeat was far from preordained. The lesson of October 1964 is not that policy differences or failures lead inexorably to political defeat, but that elite politics in Marxist-Leninist regimes is inherently ambiguous, personal, and, most importantly, highly contingent.

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“You Don't Know Khrushchev Well”

Torigian¹

2022

Journal of Cold War Studies

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The Reformer Ousted

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