Lecture: "The Hidden Springs of the Conspiracy. How Nikita Khrushchev Was Ousted"

Leonid Mlechin, historian and writer, will tell about a conspiracy that in October 1964 changed the course of our country’s history—resulting in the removal of Nikita Khrushchev and the coming to power of Leonid Brezhnev. Nikita Khrushchev, known to many as the general secretary who knocked his shoe on the UN podium and promised the world “Kuzkina mother,” also became known as the initiator of the “Thaw,” as the creator of the rocket-nuclear potential in which a human being flew into space for the first time, and many citizens gained the opportunity to live in separate apartments, leaving barracks and communal flats behind. How was this conspiracy prepared and why did the last attempt to reform the country fail? This will be revealed in Leonid Mlechin’s lecture, a historian and TV host.