Khrushchev, Iowa, and a Little Russian History

Articles and Websites (Print articles available at the Central Library)

“50th Anniversary Celebration: Khrushchev‟s Visit to Garst Home Farm.” White Rock Conservancy. http://www.whiterockconservancy.org/ProjectHighlight.aspx?Id=5

“50 Years Since Khrushchev Visit.” Coon Rapids Enterprise, January 15, 2009. http://www.coonrapidsenterprise.com/archives/view.php?viewID=72

“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://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/38.1/frese.html

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/200605080052

“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

“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 Family Recalls 1959 Khrushchev Visit,” KCCI News. http://www.kcci.com/news/18948306/detail.html

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

“John Chrystal (obituary).” http://www.coonrapidsiowa.info/html/john_crystal.html

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=ehost-live

“The Khrushchev Visit: As the World Sees It.” U.S. News and World Report, September 28, 1959.

Khrushchev, Nikita. "Khrushchev's Secret Speech." The Soviet Union: From Lenin to Gorbachev, UWM. http://www.uwm.edu/Course/448-343/index12.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

“Khrushchev Visit to Garst Farm.” September 1, 1959, Life Magazine Images. http://www.life.com/search/?type=images&q0=roswell%20garst

Linck, Michael. “Program Examines Iowa‟s Russian Connection.” Sioux City Journal, April 23, 2009. http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2009/04/23/news/top/c5faf19e07628b37862575a0007e 24d1.txt

Mills, George. “Nikita to Get Viewpoint of Iowa Worker.” Des Moines Sunday Register, September. 20, 1959, sec. L.

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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.

“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.

“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.

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“Where and How Khrushchev Will Discover America.” U.S. News and World Report, September 14, 1959.

“Why Communism Terrified Us.” Life Magazine Gallery. http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/26031/why-communism-terrified-us

“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.

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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.

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.

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.