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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | KHRUSHCHEV, NIKITA SERGEYEVICH [Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich], 1894-1971, Soviet Communist leader, premier of the USSR (1958-64), and first secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union (1953-64). |
 | | Of a peasant family, he worked in the plants and mines of Ukraine, joined the Communist party in 1918, and in 1929 was sent to Moscow for further study. |
 | | In foreign affairs Khrushchev's announced policy, the opposite of that of Stalin, was one of "peaceful coexistence" in the cold war. |
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