{"id":6456,"date":"2025-02-15T21:20:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T21:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/book-excerpt-a-different-russia-by-marvin-kalb\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T21:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T21:20:53","slug":"book-excerpt-a-different-russia-by-marvin-kalb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/book-excerpt-a-different-russia-by-marvin-kalb\/","title":{"rendered":"Book excerpt: &#8220;A Different Russia&#8221; by Marvin Kalb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/15\/6e8be79e-81ad-4d32-9f56-165bf066699e\/thumbnail\/620x465\/79a56c8cebc062dcba544ee1f2195fb9\/a-different-russia-bookbaby-cover.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe#\" alt=\"a-different-russia-bookbaby-cover.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/15\/6e8be79e-81ad-4d32-9f56-165bf066699e\/thumbnail\/620x465\/79a56c8cebc062dcba544ee1f2195fb9\/a-different-russia-bookbaby-cover.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/15\/6e8be79e-81ad-4d32-9f56-165bf066699e\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/87946e050fcbb5bb98e9dbe69eab1fae\/a-different-russia-bookbaby-cover.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 2x\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20620%20465'%2F%3E\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                BookBaby<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <strong>&#8220;A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course&#8221;<\/strong> (BookBaby), veteran journalist Marvin Kalb writes about the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (which he covered for CBS News), and the idea of a potential thaw in relations between the two superpowers \u2013 inconceivable then, even with regard to &#8220;a different Russia.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Read an excerpt below, and <strong>don&#8217;t miss Marvin Kalb&#8217;s commentary about a potential Trump-Putin summit on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sunday-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;CBS Sunday Morning&#8221;<\/a> February 16!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Different-Russia-Khrushchev-Kennedy-Collision\/dp\/B0DL8PCZPH?tag=cbs-news-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;A Different Russia&#8221; by Marvin Kalb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Kennedy proved to be Khrushchev&#8217;s last chance for a meaningful boost in Soviet-American relations.\u00a0 They met for one summit in Vienna in June 1961. After two days in the Austrian capital, gloom replaced their earlier hopes for a radically improved relationship.\u00a0 Suspicions deepened, as both leaders stumbled into dangerous miscalculations about Berlin and Cuba.\u00a0 Soon an ugly wall would be running through the divided German capital and, not too many months later, Khrushchev would foolishly decide to try to slip nuclear-tipped missiles and troops into Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy had once appealed to Khrushchev as a genuine partner for peace. He saw in the young president an adversary with whom he thought he could do business. For a brief time, one month on the 1963 calendar, shortly after signing the historic atmospheric nuclear test ban agreement with the U.S., he allowed himself to live inside a beautiful bubble of hope. Every now and then, with closest advisers or family members, he would imagine six more years of other major U.S.-Soviet agreements that would, among other things, control the spread of nuclear weapons, settle the Berlin crisis and lead to a period of genuine peace.<\/p>\n<p>Why six years? he was asked.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he&#8217;d reply, Kennedy has two more years in his current term, and then another four in his next term, which Khrushchev was certain he would win.<\/p>\n<p>What Khrushchev did not know\u2014could not know\u2014was that within a month Kennedy would be dead and within a year he&#8217;d be ousted from power.<\/p>\n<p>When Khrushchev heard Kennedy had been shot, he cried. His dreams for a new and glorious era in Soviet-American relations had just come to a tragic end.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>From &#8220;A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course&#8221; by Marvin Kalb. Copyright 2025 by Marvin Kalb. 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