Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

April 15, 1894 (130 years old) in Kalinovka, Dmitrievskiy uyezd, Kurskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of Stalin's crimes and began de-Stalinization. He sponsored the early Soviet space program, and enactment of relatively liberal reforms in domestic policy. After some false starts, and a narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions. His proclivity toward recklessness led the Kremlin leadership to strip him of power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nikita Khrushchev, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
First Ladies First Ladies
Race for the White House Race for the White House
The Fog of War The Fog of War

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