1 day ago · For the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the Kremlin today is taking the country back to the authoritarian nightmare of the past. ... Everyone in Stalin’s entourage after his death was ...

Feb 02, 2006 · It was the first since the death of Josef Stalin in 1953, but almost nothing was said about the dead leader until, in closed session on the 25th, 1,500 delegates and many invited visitors listened to an amazing speech by Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the party, on ‘The Personality Cult and its Consequences’.

Apr 03, 2022 · The Murky Aftermath Of Joseph Stalin’s Death. After Joseph Stalin’s death, Nikita Khrushchev seized power. He swiftly washed his hands of his former boss, telling an audience at the Twentieth Communist Party Congress in 1956 that Stalin had been a “despot” with an unhealthy “cult of personality.”

Nov 13, 2022 · November 13, 2022. in News. Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at the New School in New York, went back to Moscow recently to complete work on her forthcoming book, a biography of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev—her great-grandfather. Khrushchev was the first Soviet premier to visit the United States, in 1959.

Jan 06, 2017 · Khrushchev, the son of rural peasants, had ended up leading the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. By the late 1950s, he had made some limited internal reforms and was attempting to ...

Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Nikita Khrushchev . 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 ...

In the USSR, during the eleven-year period from the death of Joseph Stalin (1953) to the political ouster of Nikita Khrushchev (1964), the national politics were dominated by the Cold War, including the U.S.–USSR struggle for the global spread of their respective socio-economic systems and ideology, and the defense of ...

Oct 22, 2018 · Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) was leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. Lasting a little over a decade, his leadership spanned a crucial phase of the Cold War. Khrushchev was born in 1894 to a peasant family in Ukraine. As a child he remained in the village, tending livestock for most of the year, though in the winter he ...

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 15 1894 – September 11, 1971) was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.