From the monthly archives:

February 2006

U.N.’s first struggle: Housing for its colored employees

by Islander on February 25, 2006

It all started in a pretty much calm and neutral manner: “Officials of the United Nations are seeking revision of their year-old arrangement to take over 912 apartments in two housing developments now built by the Metropolitan and the New York Life Insurance companies… And Byron Price, Assistant Secretary General, in charge of housing for [...]

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Politburo archives shed new light on Khruchev’s famous speech

by Islander on February 25, 2006

More than 50 years ago, a Soviet Party leader, Nikita Khruchev, publicly critiqued Stalin. Many of those who attended the conference remembered “death-like” silence that covered the conference hall. It was February 25, 1956. That day, delegates of the XX Party Session were unexpectedly called up for a closed meeting. When Khruchev went on a [...]

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