The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November (Cold War International History Project)

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In line with 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 in reality stretched well into November 1962 as the Soviets secretly planned to leave at the back of in Cuba over 100 tactical nuclear weapons, then reversed themselves as a result of obstreperous behavior by Fidel Castro. The highly-charged negotiations with the Cuban leadership, who bitterly felt sold out by Soviet concessions to the US, were led by Mikoyan. Adding personal crisis, Mikoyan’s wife of more than 40 years died the day he arrived in Havana, yet he stayed to unravel the crisis through direct talks in Havana, New York, and Washington, amid constant communications with Moscow. The writer, Sergo Mikoyan, who served as his father’s personal secretary all over these travels, vividly recalls how the Soviet relationship with revolutionary Cuba started and how it was once shaped by the crisis.

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