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  Nikita Khrushchev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nikita Khrushchev was born in the village of Kalinovka, Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Guberniya, Russian Empire, now occupied by the present-day Kursk Oblast of the Russian Federation.
Khrushchev's new attitude towards the West as a rival instead of as an evil entity alienated Mao Zedong's China.
Khrushchev's grave at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow
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 Biography: Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev honestly believed in the superiority of Communism, and felt that it was only a matter of time before it would destroy the Capitalist system once and for all.
Khrushchev's enthusiasm for flashy gestures had not been liked by more conservative elements from the very start; many Soviets were greatly embarrassed by his antics, such as banging a shoe on the podium during a speech to the UN General Assembly.
Khrushchev never regained his prestige after the incident, and was quietly ousted two years later by opponents in the Politburo--significantly, with no bloodshed.
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 Nikita Khrushchev - MSN Encarta
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1953 to 1964, who concurrently held the post of Soviet prime minister from 1958 to 1964.
Khrushchev is best known for his criticism of his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, and for his efforts to promote peaceful coexistence with non-Communist states.
In this speech, which was not released in full to the Soviet press, Khrushchev sharply criticized Stalin for his purge of the party, the large-scale executions of Soviet citizens, the deportation of a number of national minorities from their homelands, his cult of personality, and widespread violations of the law.
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 Nikita Khrushchev - MSN Encarta
Khrushchev was born to a poor family in Kalinovka, near the village of Kursk in southwestern Russia.
Soon after Stalin died in March 1953, Khrushchev became leader of the party, which suffered from a loss of power and prestige because of Stalin’s violent, massive purges of the party and civilian population.
Khrushchev ordered troops of the Warsaw Pact, an alliance of Communist states, to invade Hungary in 1956 to put down the country’s widespread uprising and to install a Communist regime loyal to the Soviet Union.
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 CNN Cold War - Profile: Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born in 1894 to an illiterate peasant family in Kalinovka, a village near Russia's border with Ukraine.
In the 1930s Khrushchev was promoted from one political position to the next, until finally, in 1935, he became second in command of the Moscow Communist Party.
Khrushchev's advocacy of reforms contributed to a groundswell of independence movements among Soviet satellite nations in Eastern Europe.
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 Nikita Khrushchev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich (1894-1971), was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964.
Khrushchev strongly criticized the cruelty of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union mostly by terror from 1929 to 1953.
Khrushchev's policy in dealing with Western nations was a mixture of both gestures of peace and threats.
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 Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev, the grandson of a serf and the son of a coal miner, was born in Kalinovka, Ukraine on 5th April, 1894.
Khrushchev remained active in the Communist Party and in 1925 was employed as party secretary of the Petrovsko-Mariinsk.
Khrushchev was demoted in 1951 and replaced as the minister responsible for agriculture.
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 Nikita Khrushchev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchyof (Khrushchev) (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв, April 17, 1894 – September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.
Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev was born in the village of Kalinovka, Dmitriyev uezd, Kursk Guberniya of the Russian Empire now Kursk Oblast of the Russian Federation).
Nikita Khrushchev at the [[Simferopol Space Control Center]] During a Big Four summit in Paris on May 16, 1960, Khrushchev demanded an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the U-2 Spy Plane Crisis.
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 Nikita Khrushchev - Simple English Wikipedia
Nikita was born in the town of Kalinovka in Russia.
Khrushchev took the missiles away from Cuba and this problem was ended.
Because the Chinese leader Mao Zedong liked Stalin, and did not like it when Khrushchev became more friendly with the west, and when Nikita Khrushchev began a "destalinization" campaign.
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 Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, photographed here in 1961 with US president John F Kennedy in Vienna, Austria, was a strong supporter of the Russian space programme and of competition with the USA.
Khrushchev's emphasis on improving the standard of living in the USSR sprang from his own peasant origins.
Because of problems with the economy and foreign affairs (a breach with China in 1960;; conflict with the USA in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962), he was ousted by Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin.
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 Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In foreign affairs Khrushchev’s announced policy, the opposite of that of Stalin, was one of “peaceful coexistence” in the cold war.
Khrushchev’s policies at home and abroad involved him in an increasingly bitter struggle with China, whose Communist government continued to adhere to an ideology of international revolution.
International tension was created by Khrushchev’s adamant stand over Berlin, but was lessened somewhat by his withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba in 1962 and by small compromises in the Soviet proposals for disarmament.
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 Wikinfo | Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв) (knee-KEE-tah khroo-SHCHOFF) (April 17, 1894 - September 11, 1971) was a Soviet politician and the First Secretary of the CPSU from 1953 to 1964, who led the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin.
Khrushchev pursued a course of reform and shocked delegates to the 20th Party Congress on February 23, 1956 by publicly denouncing the "cult of personality" that surrounded Stalin, and accusing Stalin of mass murder during the Great Purges.
Khrushchev's rivals in the party deposed him on October 14, 1964, largely due to his handling of the Cuban missile crisis and his personal mannerisms, both of which were regarded by the Party as tremendous embarassments on the international stage.
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 EefyWiki - Nikita Khrushchev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born into a poor family in 1894, not knowing then that he would become one of the few Soviet Premiers in what was once known as the U.S.S.R., or the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Nikita Khrushchev was both a figure of a new and old Soviet mentality in my opinion (I am totally just typing whatever comes out of my mind at this point, so these brilliant ideas could have already been written up in some history journal by a dead white guy).
Nikita Khrushchev ascended through the ranks of the Communist Party from a poor childhood, and because of that was clever and smart despite his rough edges and fondness for drinking (see [vodka]).
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 Nikita Khrushchev, 1894-1971
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born at Kalinkova near Kursk.
Khrushchev, who did much to enhance the ambitions and status of the Soviet union abroad, was nevertheless deposed in 1964 and forced into retirement.
Khrushchev was at his peak the greatest power behind the Iron Curtain, and a decisive voice in world politics and strategy.
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 Nikita Khrushchev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Khrushchev himself, on one had, refused to allow Boris Pasternak to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, while, on the other hand, he personally permitted the 1962 publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, with its denunciation of Stalinist repression.
Khrushchev's desire to reduce conventional armaments in favor of nuclear missiles was bitterly resisted by the Soviet military, and his repeated efforts to improve agriculture and decentralize the party structure antagonized many of those who once supported him.
In sum, Khrushchev was a thoroughgoing political pragmatist who had learned his Marxism on the job, but he never hesitated to adapt his beliefs to the political urgencies of the moment.
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 Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was first secretary of the Soviet Communist party from 1953 to 1964 and effective leader of the USSR from 1956 (premier from 1958) to 1964.
Khrushchev rose steadily up the party ladder, always combining his talents as an administrator with his technical training.
Khrushchev's unorthodox policies and his colorful behavior had created opposition from the beginning, especially among the old guard party members.
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 LRB | Neal Ascherson : Oo, Oo!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Taubman calls Khrushchev's 1956 speech 'the bravest and most reckless thing he ever did', and adds, justifiably, that 'the Soviet regime never fully recovered, and neither did he.' Addressed to a secret Congress session from which foreign delegates were excluded, it lasted four hours and shattered its totally unprepared audience.
Khrushchev knew that collective farming was a disaster in terms of food production, but could never face the obvious remedy: returning the land to the peasants and giving them proper cash incentives for crops and livestock.
Taubman has unearthed the story of Lyuba, the pretty widow of Khrushchev's son Leonid, who was arrested and sent to the camps for talking to foreign diplomats; her father-in-law pretended she had never existed, and her son Tolya became a homeless street child.
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 Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev was born on April seventeenth, eighteen ninety-four, in Kalinovka, Kursk Province.
Later on in his teens Khrushchev worked as a metal-fitter in the generator plants in the Ruchenkov and Pastukhov mines.
Bulganin was then premier, although Khrushchev was seen as the dominant figure as he led the Communist party.
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 Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev rose from the poverty of his youth to become the most powerful Russian in the Communist Party and the personification of the Cold War of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Khrushchev was born in April 1894 in Kalinovka near Russia’s southwestern border with Ukraine.
Khrushchev, a top military advisor with a rank of lieutenant general, oversaw the evacuation of industrial equipment from Kiev before it was overrun by the Germans.
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 Russian Life Online
Khrushchev attempted many sweeping and controversial reforms that deviated from the era of Stalin's terror and oppression.
Khrushchev had a profound effect on the youth of the time, many of whom would go on to serve under Mikhail Gorbachev and witness the final demise of the Soviet system.
Khrushchev must also be remembered for his public disavowal of Stalinism and the greater flexibility he brought to Soviet leadership after a long period of monolithic terror.
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 Cuban Missile Crisis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
According to Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, in May 1962 he conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba as a means of countering an emerging lead of the United States in developing and deploying strategic missiles.
On October 26, Khrushchev sent Kennedy a long rambling letter seemingly proposing that the missile installations would be dismantled and personnel removed in exchange for United States assurances that it or its proxies would not invade Cuba.
Khrushchev then announced on October 28 that he would dismantle the installations and return them to the Soviet Union, expressing his trust that the United States would not invade Cuba.
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 Nikita Khrushchev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nikita Khrushchev, who gained world fame as the Soviet leader who broke with Stalin's rigid interpretation of communism, was born in a province of Ukraine on April 17, 1894.
Khrushchev managed a number of experimental agricultural campaigns, such as the Virgin Lands Project, which attempted to cultivate lands in the harsher climate regions like Kazakhstan and Siberia.
When Khrushchev came to the U.S. in 1959, he visited ER in Hyde Park where they discussed disarmament of the two nations.
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 Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Vol 1 Edited by Sergei Khrushchev
During his life, N. Khrushchev was able to review and correct transcripts of the texts in Volume 1 of the Russian edition and, partially, the beginning of Volume 2.
Nikita Khrushchev’s memoirs are a priceless addition to the archival materials being studied by historians, which usually contain an official version of events, but lack breadth and do not reflect the clash of opinions when decisions were made.
Khrushchev was subjected to pressures from the Brezhnev leadership because of the frankness of his memoirs, and they demanded that he stop working on them.
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 Nikita Khrushchev
In 1939 Khrushchev was made a full member of the Politburo.
Khrushchev lost his gamble in the Cuban Missile Crisis and was removed from office in 1964.
Khrushchev on Khrushchev : An Inside Account of the Man and His Era, 1990.
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 We will bury you - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev famously used an expression generally translated into English as "We will bury you!" ("Мы вас похороним!", or "My vas pokhoronim!") while addressing Western ambassadors at reception in Moscow in November, 1956.
, a nod to the popular Marxist saying, "The proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism." Khrushchev later went on to explain that socialism would supplant capitalism in the same manner that capitalism itself supplanted feudalism.
Sting refers to this quote in his song entitled "Russians", in which he apparently uses the meaning of "we will destroy you" as a parallel with a (possible) quote from Ronald Reagan that says "we will protect you".
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