Khrushchev, Iowa, and a Little Russian History
Des Moines Public Library
Articles and Websites (Print articles available at the Central Library)
“And Iowan’s Reply.” Des Moines Tribune, July 6, 1961, sec. B.
Cold War International History Project. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409
Cracraft, Josh. SparkNote on the Cold War (1945–1963).
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/coldwar
“Des Moines Parking Ban on Route Nikita to Use.” Des Moines Register, June 20, 1959, sec. A.
Fowler, Veronica. “The Day Russia Came to Iowa.” Des Moines Register, September 17, 1989,
sec. A
Frese, Stephen. “Comrade Khrushchev and Farmer Garst: East-West Encounters Foster
Agricultural Exchange.” History Teacher. Also available at:
http://my.ccsd.net/download/jfoday/resource/6030
Fuson, Ken. “John Chrystal, An Iowan Respected From Coon Rapids to the Kremlin.” Des
Moines Register, April 1, 1984, sec A.
Fuson, Ken. “Soviet Visit Brings Back Memories of Khrushchev.” Des Moines Register, June
2, 1990, sec. A.
Galbraith, J.K. “In Defence of N Khrushchev.” The New Statesman, May 8, 2006. Originally
published April 9, 1971. http://www.newstatesman.com/node/153178
“Great Encounter.” Newsweek, October 5, 1959.
Harriman, Averell. “Khrushchev in the U.S.A.” Look, September 15, 1959.
“Here at Last: The Real Story of Khrushchev’s Visit.” U.S. News and World Report, October
19, 1959.
“Historic Figures: Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971).” BBC News.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/khrushchev_nikita.shtml
“Historical Materials Related to Khrushchev in Iowa.” Creating Great Places.
http://www.creatinggreatplaces.org/history.aspx
“How Khrushchev Was Invited: A Mystery Solved.” U.S. News and World Report, August 17,
1959.
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“In the Home Stretch.” U.S. News and World Report, October. 5, 1959.
Iowa State University Special Collections Department. “John Chrystal Papers.” Iowa State
University. (Biography and description of collection).
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS422.html
Iowa State University Special Collections Department. “Garst Family Photographs.” Iowa State
University. (Biography and description of collection).
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS579.html
Iowa State University Special Collections Department. “Roswell Garst Papers.” Iowa State
University. (Biography and description of collection).
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/21-07-012.pdf
Jones, Andrew. SparkNote on the Russian Revolution (1917–1918).
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/russianrev
Kennedy, John F. "Letter to Khrushchev on the Cuban Missile Crisis." Letter to Khrushchev on
the Cuban Missile Crisis, no. 1
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=21212777&site=ehostlive
“The Khrushchev Visit: As the World Sees It.” U.S. News and World Report, September
28, 1959.
Khrushchev, Nikita. "Khrushchev's Secret Speech – On the Cult of Personality." Twentieth Party
Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: February 25, 1956.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956khrushchev-secret1.html
Khrushchev, Sergei. “The Cold War Through the Looking Glass.” American Heritage
Magazine, October 1999.
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1999/6/1999_6_34.shtml
Linck, Michael. “Program Examines Iowa’s Russian Connection.” Sioux City Journal, April 23,
2009.
Mills, George. “Nikita to Get Viewpoint of Iowa Worker.” Des Moines Sunday Register,
September. 20, 1959, sec. L.
Muhm, Don. “Bob Garst, Sales Master.” Des Moines Register, April 8, 1979, sec. A.
Muhm, Don. “His ‘Voice’ Is Heard.” Des Moines Register, February 4, 1963, sec. A.
“Nikita’s Iowa Schedule.” Des Moines Register, June 20, 1959.
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“Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971). Public Broadcasting Corporation.
http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/bios/all_bio_nikita_khrushchev.htm
“The Overworking Press.” Time, October 5, 1959.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894267,00.html
“Real Story of Khrushchev’s Farm Failure: Interview with Roswell Garst.” U.S. News and
World Report, April 2, 1962.
Rowe, M. Jessica. Citizen Diplomacy: Khrushchev in Iowa. U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy,
2010.
http://uscenterforcitizendiplomacy.org/images/pdfs/USCCD_Publication_Khrushchev_in
_Iowa_0809.pdf
“Roswell Garst (1898-1977).” Fortune, March 26, 1979.
Rubiner, Betsy. “Historic Hybrid in Iowa.” New York Times, November 26, 2000.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/26/travel/historic-hybrid-in-iowa.html
“The Russian Story of Garst.” Des Moines Tribune, July 6, 1961, sec. 2
Soth, Lauren K. "If the Russians Want More Meat" The Des Moines Register, 10 February 1955.
(Soth received a Pulitzer Prize for this editorial in 1956.)
Soth, Lauren K. “The Iowa ‘K’ Will See.” New York Times Magazine, September 6, 1959.
Taubman, William. “Did He Bang It? Nikita Khrushchev and the Shoe.” New York Times, July
26, 2003. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/opinion/26iht-edtaubman_ed3_.html
Taylor, Quintard, Jr, Dr. “United States History Timeline: Cold War.” University of
Washington Department of History.
http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm
Thomson, Joe and Peter Bohr. “The Hall of Fame for Business Leadership.” Fortune, March
26, 1970.
“Timeline: Russia.” BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1113655.stm
“Want to See Nikita? Here’s Your Best Chance.” Des Moines Tribune, September 11, 1959,
sec. A.
“What Russia’s No. 1 Man Will Learn on an Iowa Farm: Interview with Roswell Garst.” U.S.
News and World Report, September 14, 1959, 52-55.
“Where and How Khrushchev Will Discover America.” U.S. News and World Report,
September 14, 1959.
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“Why’s the CIA in Coon Rapids?” Des Moines Register, February 3, 1980, sec. B.
“With Khrushchev Here.” U.S. News and World Report, September 14, 1959.
Yepsen, David. “Chrystal Brings Foreign Policy to Campaign.” Des Moines Register, April 5,
1990, Metro section.
Books available for check-out
Beschloss, Michael R. The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963. New York:
Burlingame, 1991.
Beschloss, Michael R. MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair. New York:
Harper, 1986.
Carlson, Peter. K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev,
America’s Most Unlikely Tourist. New York: Public Affairs, 2009.
Crankshaw, Edward. Introduction, commentary, and notes. Khrushchev Remembers by Nikita
Sergeevich Khrushchev. Trans. and ed. Strobe Talbott. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970.
Frankel, Max. High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile
Crisis. New York: Ballantine, 2004.
Fursenko, Alexsandr and Timothy Naftali. Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an
American Adversary. New York: Norton, 2006
Fursenko, Alexsandr and Timothy Naftali. “One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro, and
Kennedy, 1958-1964. New York: Norton, 1997.
Garst, Roswell. Letters from an American Farmer: The Eastern European and Russian
Correspondence of Roswell Garst. Edited by Richard Lowitt and Harold Lee. DeKalb,
IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1987.
Gladdis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin, 2005.
Graham, Loren R. Moscow Stories. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Lee, Harold. Roswell Garst: A Biography. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1984.
Leebaert, Derek. The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America’s Cold War Victory.
Boston: Little, Brown, 2002.
Mark, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. New York: Penguin, 2006.
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McNeal, Robert Hatch. Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev: Voices of Bolshevism. New Jersey:
Prentice-Hall, 1963.
Pipes, Richard. The Russian Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Rush, Myron. The Rise of Khrushchev. Washington: Public Affairs, 1958.
Schmemann, Serge. Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village. New York:
Knopf, 1997.
Service, Robert. A History of Twentieth Century Russia. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1998.
Taubman, William. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.
Warren, James A. Cold War: The American Crusade Against World Communism, 1945-1991.
New York: Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard, 1996.
Books available in-library only (Central location)
Drache, Hiram M. Roswell Garst, the Innovator. Coon Rapids, IA: Garst and Thomas, 1979.
Garst, Roswell. Letters from an American Farmer: The Eastern European and Russian
Correspondence of Roswell Garst. Edited by Richard Lowitt and Harold Lee. DeKalb,
IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1987.
Khrushchev, Nikita. Interview with Gardner Cowles. An Interview with Nikita Khrushchev,
April 20, 1962: 46.
Lee, Harold. Roswell Garst: A Biography. Ames: IA State UP, 1984.
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