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? Like Stalin in the early 1920s Krushchev was not seen as an eventual leader in 1953 and 1954. In the early years his political opponents underestimated him and again in 1957, but he in turn was to underestimate the force of opposition in 1964. An important area ....

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.... in Geneva. The meeting yielded a few concrete results, but it did not provide an impetus for the policy Khrushchev was calling “peaceful co-existence”. Although certainly not insignificant, these episodes proved to be islands of co-operation a sea of confrontation. They did not prevent hardening of Europe’s division into Eastern and Western Blocs. The Soviet reaction included organising the Warsaw pact, the Moscow dominated military alliance that after 1955 stood opposed to Nato across Europe. The Soviets also worked to mend their fences with communist nations in an attempt to reunite the communist world, including a 1954 treaty with China. ....