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  1. 2 days ago · Russia - Khrushchev, Soviet Union, Cold War: After Stalin’s death in 1953, a power struggle for leadership ensued, which was won by Nikita Khrushchev. His landmark decisions in foreign policy and domestic programs markedly changed the direction of the Soviet Union, bringing détente with the West and a relaxation of rigid controls within the country. Khrushchev, who rose under Stalin as an ...

  2. Nikita Khrushchev. Soviet Union. Stalinism. Roy Medvedev (born November 14, 1925, Tbilisi, Georgia, U.S.S.R. [now in Georgia]) is a Russian historian and dissident who was one of his country’s foremost historiographers in the late 20th century. Roy was the identical twin brother of the biologist Zhores Medvedev.

  3. Nikita Khrushchev, 1960. Nikita Khrushchev, (born April 17, 1894, Kalinovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died Sept. 11, 1971, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet leader. The son of a miner, he joined the Communist Party in 1918. In 1934 he was elected to its Central Committee, and in 1935 he became first secretary of the Moscow party organization.

  4. Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1953-1964. Certainly the most colorful Soviet leader, Khrushchev is best remembered for his dramatic, ...

  5. Nuori työläinen. Nikita Hruštšov syntyi 15. huhtikuuta 1894 Kalinovkan kylässä Kurskin kuvernementin alueella (nykyinen Kurskin alue ). Hänen isänsä oli nimeltään Sergei ja äitinsä Ksenia. Isä ansaitsi melko hyvin, mutta silti vähitellen perhe vajosi köyhyyteen. Perhe ei omistanut maatilaa eikä hevosta.

  6. Jun 8, 2018 · A humble beginning. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born in southern Russia, in the village of Kalinovka, near the Ukrainian border. His father was a poor peasant who farmed in the summer and worked in the Ukrainian coal mines in the winter. When Nikita was a teenager, the family moved close to Yuzovka, Ukraine, to be nearer the mines.

  7. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born in 1894 into a poor family near Kursk in south-western Russia. He received very little formal education. He joined the Bolshevik Party in 1918 and served in ...