Title

American National Exhibition, Moscow, USSR, 1959. Artist: Unknown

Caption

American National Exhibition, Moscow, USSR, 1959. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) samples a cup of Pepsi-Cola watched by US Vice-President Ricard Nixon (1913-1994) and Pepsi Co Chairman Donald M Kendall (1921-). The exhibition, which followed a Soviet exhibition staged in New York earlier the same year, was ostensibly staged to improve relationships between the Cold War rivals, but its exhibits were intended to showcase the superior lifestyle enjoyed by capitalist America compared to Communist Russia.

Date

1959

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Fine Art Images

Reference

HRM19D93_325

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

40,0Mb (2,6Mb) / 12,5in x 12,4in / 3745 x 3732 (300dpi)

Keywords

drink hat politics country drinking cup watching clothes dress capitalism location century communist Moscow Russia Russian leader communism Rivalry exhibition B&W tasting rival MONOCHROME fifties Republican 1950s United States of America United States USSR Cold War Soviet Union pepsi black & white black and white B W Soviet 20th century American America USA decade TGN vice-president Nikita Khrushchev Richard Nixon photograph Pepsi-Cola detente Unknown Richard Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Khrushchev Nikita Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Nixon Kendall Richard Millhouse Nixon Richard M Nixon Fine Art Images American National Exhibition Donald M Kendall Donald M Donald Kendall photograph