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I’m stuck on a History question and need an explanation.
Read Nikita Khrushchev’s “Speech to the Chinese” (1959). Why did Khrushchev feel that the conflict between the socialist and capitalist camps that Lenin had predicted was no longer inevitable? How would China’s current leaders react to this speech?
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Nikita Khrushchev’s Speech (1959)
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Nikita Khrushchev’s Speech (1959)
Nikita Khrushchev’s speech was delivered in China in 1959. Khrushchev was the
current Russian president and a socialist; the speech was alerting fellow socialist leaders on
the dangers of the continuing Cold War between Imperialists and Socialists. Khrushchev
feared that the remarks of a previous Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin would come true if the
communist community does not handle the Cold War crisis appropriately. Lenin asserted that
a war between the imperialists and socialists was inevitable because the imperialists will
never agree to lose a war (Duiker & Spielvogel, 2011, p. 779). The Lenin ideology about the
“imperialist’s nature” had plagued the socialist leader’s minds as they were finding it hard to
co-exist and create peaceful competition. Khrushchev ...