14 Okt 1964 Jahr - Khrushchev is deposed and succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev, Alexei Kosygin, and Niokolai Podgorny in a Troika. Brezhnev would eventually consolidate his rule in the 1970s

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"October 13, 1964 – the Kremlin announced their intention to depose him [Khrushchev].
The charges made against Khrushchev…he was accused of rudeness, distraction, arrogance, incompetence, nepotism, megalomania, depression, unpredictability, and growing old. He had allowed his own cult of personality to develop, and no longer listened to his advisers. He had ruined Soviet agriculture while bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. He had authorised the construction of the Berlin Wall, a public humiliation for Marxism-Leninism." (Gaddis 2006, p. 120).

"Khrushchev’s fate reflected, in microcosm, that of the Soviet Union and the US during the late 1950, the 1960s, and the early 1970s... the superpowers were finding it increasingly difficult to manage smaller powers, whether allies or neutrals in the Cold War, while at the same time they were losing the authority they had once taken for granted at home." (Gaddis 2006, p. 120)

"What all of this meant, then, was that the choices newly independent states made could yet tip the balance of power in the Cold War." (Gaddis 2006, p. 123)

"Khrushchev, fearing the implications, tried desperately to reconstitute it [sino-soviet alliance] right up to the moment he was deposed in 1964, despite repeated insults, rebuffs, and even instances of deliberate sabotage from Mao." (Gaddis 2006, p. 142).

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