The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis – Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the…
The Soviet Cuban Missile CrisisCastro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November\nAuthor(s): Sergo Mikoyan, Svetlana Savranskaya\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804762014, 978-0804762014\nSynopsis\nBased on secret transcripts of top-level diplomacy undertaken by the number-two Soviet leader, Anastas Mikoyan, to settle the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, this book rewrites conventional history. The \""missiles of October\"" and \""13 days\"" were only half the story: the nuclear crisis actually stretched well into November 1962 as the Soviets secretly planned to leave behind in Cuba over 100 tactical nuclear weapons, then reversed themselves because of obstreperous behavior by Fidel Castro. The highly-charged negotiations with the Cuban leadership, who bitterly felt sold out by Soviet concessions to the United States, were led by Mikoyan. \n\n Adding personal crisis, Mikoyan's wife of m.
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