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502 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1997
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Nikita Khrushchev
203 books14 followersSoviet politician Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev served from 1953 as first secretary of the Communist party, denounced Joseph Stalin in 1956, thwarted the Hungarian revolution, and from 1958 as premier improved image of his country abroad, but for his perceived weakness in dealing with the west and his failure to the economy, people deposed him in 1964.
Nikita Khrushchev initiated a vast agricultural project, centered at Astana, a small mining town until the 1950s.
He led union during part of the Cold War. He stood as chairman of the council of ministers of the union. Khrushchev responsibly partially changed the union, backed the progress of the early space program, and made several relatively liberal reforms in domestic affairs. From power, colleagues removed him and replaced him Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin.
People employed him as a metalworker in his youth and as a commissar during the Russian civil war. With the help of Lazar Kaganovich, he worked his way up the hierarchy. He supported purges and approved thousands of arrests. In 1939, sent to govern Ukraine, he continued the purges. During the known great patriotic war in the union or the eastern front, Khrushchev, again a commissar, provided an intermediary with generals. Khrushchev took great dignity in fact of his presence at the bloody defense of Stalingrad throughout his life. After the war, he returned to Ukraine before people recalled him to Moscow as close adviser.
Death in 1953 triggered the power, and after several years, victorious Khrushchev emerged. On 25 February 1956 at the twentieth congress, he delivered the "Secret Speech" on purges and ushered in a less repressive era in the union. He aimed often ineffectively at bettering the domestic lives of ordinary citizens, especially in agriculture. Khrushchev expected eventually to rely on missiles for national defense and ordered major cuts in conventional forces. Despite the cuts, rule of Khrushchev saw the tensest years of the Cold War and culminated in the Cuban missile crisis.
Emerging rivals particularly saw somewhat erratic Khrushchev and quietly rose in strength in October 1964. He, however, suffered not the deadly fate of some previous losers of power struggles but received a pension, an apartment in Moscow, and a dacha in the side. People smuggled his lengthy memoirs and published part in 1970. Khrushchev died of heart disease.
Nikita Khrushchev initiated a vast agricultural project, centered at Astana, a small mining town until the 1950s.
He led union during part of the Cold War. He stood as chairman of the council of ministers of the union. Khrushchev responsibly partially changed the union, backed the progress of the early space program, and made several relatively liberal reforms in domestic affairs. From power, colleagues removed him and replaced him Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin.
People employed him as a metalworker in his youth and as a commissar during the Russian civil war. With the help of Lazar Kaganovich, he worked his way up the hierarchy. He supported purges and approved thousands of arrests. In 1939, sent to govern Ukraine, he continued the purges. During the known great patriotic war in the union or the eastern front, Khrushchev, again a commissar, provided an intermediary with generals. Khrushchev took great dignity in fact of his presence at the bloody defense of Stalingrad throughout his life. After the war, he returned to Ukraine before people recalled him to Moscow as close adviser.
Death in 1953 triggered the power, and after several years, victorious Khrushchev emerged. On 25 February 1956 at the twentieth congress, he delivered the "Secret Speech" on purges and ushered in a less repressive era in the union. He aimed often ineffectively at bettering the domestic lives of ordinary citizens, especially in agriculture. Khrushchev expected eventually to rely on missiles for national defense and ordered major cuts in conventional forces. Despite the cuts, rule of Khrushchev saw the tensest years of the Cold War and culminated in the Cuban missile crisis.
Emerging rivals particularly saw somewhat erratic Khrushchev and quietly rose in strength in October 1964. He, however, suffered not the deadly fate of some previous losers of power struggles but received a pension, an apartment in Moscow, and a dacha in the side. People smuggled his lengthy memoirs and published part in 1970. Khrushchev died of heart disease.
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