ABSTRACT
14 October 1964. The unthinkable has come to pass in Moscow. The Central Committee of the CPSU is assembled in the Kremlin to ratify the Party Presidium’s decision to remove Nikita Khrushchev from his posts as first secretary of the Party and chairman of the Council of Ministers. This is the first time in the entire history of Russia that the established leader has been removed, not by death or armed coup, but by a vote, according to the rules.
