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The 1959 Kitchen Debate
Author: Yale Richmond
Russian Life: July/Aug 2009
Department: Features
Page: 42 ( 6) pages
Summary: Fifty years ago this summer, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and American Vice President Richard Nixon sparred before the media, debating the merits of Capitalism versus Communism on the site of the first-ever American Exhibition in Moscow. It set the stage for 40 years of cultural exchanged.
This article appeared in the July/Aug 2009 issue of Russian Life. The text of this article is not available online.
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Weblinks related to this story:
- Former Guides Interviewed Former guides at USIA exhibits interviewed, with video and transcripts.
- Interview with Jack Masey Nice interview about the exhbition.
- Kitchen Debate on Tape Audio only of Nixon-Khrushchev Exchange
- Nixon on Khrushchev Nixon on Khrushchev, one year later
- Parting the Curtain, by Walter Hixson
- Transcript of Debate As it appeared in the NYT.
- USIA Exhibits Blog A blog run by former USIA guides, with links to photos of exhibits and video of Khrushchev/Nixon videotaped exchange at 1959 event (not the actual Kitchen Debate).
- Video of Nixon and Khrushchev Newsreel of Nixon and Khrushchev at the fair