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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 in Russia.
In the 2001 motion picture Enemy at the Gates, a dramatization of the Battle of Stalingrad, Khrushchev is portrayed by British actor Bob Hoskins, though his surname is spelled as Krushchev in the closing credits.
The Case of Khrushchev's Shoe, by Nina Khrushcheva (Nikita's granddaughter), New Statesman, Oct. 2, 2000.
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 Krushchev's Grave
Krushchev was deposed in 1964 and spend seven years in relative obscurity until he died on 13 September 1971.
Krushchev's son, Sergei Nikitich, was hesitant to ask Neizvestny because of the famous exchange between Neizvestny and Krushchev in 1962 at the Manezh Exhibition Hall on Manezh Square which did much to destroy the artist's promising career.
Krushchev, who relished an argument but respected alternative opinions that were well argued, calmed down and agreed to appoint a commission, perhaps sensing the weakness of his own argument.
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 Engineer Sergei Krushchev - Son of Former Nikita Krushchev
Another focus of Dr. Krushchev's interests is the history of Soviet missiles and space development, in which he played an active role, from 1958-68.
Krushchev has his Soviet doctoral degree from the Ukranian Academy of Science, a Ph.D. from the Moscow Technical University, and an M.A. with distinction from the Moscow Electric Power Institute.
Krushchev is mentioned in the Who's Who in the World, International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievements, International Authors and Writers, International Who's Who of Intellectuals, and Contemporary Authors Gala Research.
www.engology.com /eng5krushchev.htm   (614 words)

  
 Flashback: This Month in History
Krushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union and the guiding hand of the world communist movement for six years, after succeeding Nikolai A. Bulganin as premier in 1958.
Krushchev became a Bolshevik in 1918 and was appointed to his first important party job seven years after joining.
Krushchev issued a formal denial that the memoirs were genuine, and his wife also denied their authenticity.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/flash/sept/krusch71.htm   (1194 words)

  
 Nikita Khrushchev - Simple English Wikipedia
Nikita was born in the town of Kalinovka in Russia.
When Nikita became the leader of the Soviet Union, he began something he called "De-Stalinization".
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.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nikita_Krushchev   (321 words)

  
 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.
To supplement his family's meager income he began working at an early age, but despite this, and despite his father's second job as a coal miner, Khrushchev's family was unable to survive as farmers.
It was the beginning of his activist career: at the age of 18, Khrushchev joined a group of workers who had organized a strike protesting working conditions.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/khrushchev   (649 words)

  
 Krushchev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Nikita Krushchev came into power in late 1953 backed by the power of the Soviet military.
Krushchev's new plan was to increase the production of food and consumer goods, which was often neglected under Stalin's rule.
Krushchev was removed from power on October 4th, 1964.
www.horizon.ab.ca /lomond/jonsovlkrush.htm   (197 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - World - Nikita and Catherine Celebrate Together
Nikita Krushchev was born into an illiterate peasant family in the village of Kalinovka near Kursk on April 17, 1894.
Krushchev traded on his peasant roots and practical approach, which won him the enmity of party intellectuals and theorists.
Despite Krushchev's idiosyncrasies and temper, his reign (1953-1964) was significant and encompassed an enormous number of events that were key to twentieth-century history, from the denunciation of Stalin, the Soviet victory in the space race and the Cuban missile crisis, to the thaw, the U2 spy-plane affair, and the building of the Berlin Wall.
www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=15197   (649 words)

  
 Nikita goes to Hollywood, by Mike Lee, Autumn 2002
Krushchev was ordered to Stalingrad by Stalin himself and as commissar to the military command was tasked with the political management of the battle.
Nikita Sergeevich Krushchev was born in to a peasant family 1894 in the Caucasus.
Krushchev, was a remarkable character who, though he was aware of and indeed participated in the excesses of Stalinism, apparently maintained a genuine idealistic belief in socialism as the ultimate saviour of humanity.
www.ratical.org /ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/NikitaHW.html   (3973 words)

  
 Khrushchev and Khrushchev
Transcript, with handwritten revisions, of Nikita Khrushchev's dictated memoirs (photocopy).
Prior to his death in 1971 Nikita Khrushchev, using a "Uher" tape recorder, dictated his memoirs on reels of audio tape.
In addition to the voice of Nikita Khrushchev, two fragments of music can be heard: one of Diana Ross and the Supremes, the other of Frank Sinatra.) In July 1970, when Nikita Khrushchev was in hospital, the KGB confiscated the original tapes.
www.brown.edu /Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/khrushchev/k4.html   (635 words)

  
 The real crimes of Stalin’s Russia
Krushchev exposed the horrible crimes of Stalin, who had died in 1953.
Krushchev revealed that Stalin’s great purges in the late 1930s had almost wiped out the political leadership of the party that had had any connection to the 1917 revolution itself, through the use of coerced confessions and summary executions.
Hardcore Stalinists saw Krushchev’s speech as a betrayal; others left their respective Communist parties in disgust and disillusion; and Western leaders used it to “prove” that socialism doesn’t work.
www.socialistworker.org /2006-1/578/578_09_Stalin.shtml   (597 words)

  
 Simon World :: China's Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech at the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in February 1956 revealing Stalin's crimes shocked the communist world and initiated a course of de-Stalinization...Where is China's Khrushchev?
Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech at the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in February 1956 revealing Stalin's crimes shocked the communist world and initiated a course of de-Stalinization...
Nikita Krushchev was known in China not for his speech against Stalin, but for revisionism.
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 Lest We Forget by Paul Craig Roberts
Fifty years ago today Nikita Krushchev gave his Secret Speech to the Closed Session of the Twentieth Party Congress in which he denounced Joseph Stalin.
The situation was intolerable for all, and Nikita Krushchev brought it to an end.
Stalin, said Krushchev, "absolutely did not tolerate collegiality in leadership and in work," but "practiced brutal violence, not only toward everything which opposed him, but also toward that which seemed to his capricious and despotic character, contrary to his concepts.
www.lewrockwell.com /roberts/roberts152.html   (735 words)

  
 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev: Early Career - Early Career Of a peasant family, he worked in the plants and mines of Ukraine, joined the...
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev: Soviet Leader - Soviet Leader After the death of Stalin on Mar. 5, 1953, a “collective leadership”...
Nikita Khrushchev - Political Leader, born 17 April 1894, Leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1958-64
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 Humbul Record : Khrushchev and Khrushchev: from the Kremlin to Brown University
The second Krushchev of the exhibition title is his son Sergei Krushchev, who famously took American citizenship in 1999 and donated his father's papers to Brown University Library.
There are sections devoted to Nikita Krushchev, Sergei Krushchev, the publications of Sergie Krushchev, and the memoirs of Nikita Krushchev.
Krushchev's memoirs were painstakingly dictated onto a number of tape reels and fortunately copied and deposited in various places.
www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full3.php?id=11557   (300 words)

  
 LRB | Neal Ascherson : Oo, Oo!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
There was real hatred and outrage in that speech, anger at the fate of old Party comrades and, as Taubman suggests, a personal need to 'reclaim his identity as a decent man'.
Disgusted, Nikita Sergeevich would get back into his limousine and return to plans for a pipeline to supply Kiev with the milk of 500,000 cows.
Maybe not, for there was a side of Nikita Sergeevich which yearned to be part of a fast-moving, acquisitive, can-do world.
www.lrb.co.uk /v25/n16/asch01_.html   (3062 words)

  
 TIME Person of the Year -- A Photo History, Nikita Krushchev
Nikita Krushchev was named TIME Man of the Year in 1957
A Soviet loyalist and Stalin's trusted heir, Khruschev was also responsible for an opening up of the country and "de-Stalinization." In 1956, as Soviet premier, he denounced his former patron and set into motion a new freedom.
TIME wrote "In 1957's twelve months, Nikita Khrushchev, peasant's son and cornfield commissar scorned by the party's veteran intellectuals, disposed all his serious rivals — at least for the time." Khrushchev toured the U.S. and met with Eisenhower in 1959.
www.time.com /time/poy2001/photo/krushchev.html   (203 words)

  
 Russians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Krushchev (1894-1971) was the premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1958-1964.
While in office Krushchev boasted of the Soviet's military power and proclaimed that the Soviet Union would "bury" the United States.
Krushchev is also mentioned in Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start The Fire" from the album
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 HWA BIOGRAPHY
Khrushchev is the son of former Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the Soviet Union, 1957-1964, Nikita Krushchev.
At Brown University, Dr. Krushchev focuses his research on the former Soviet Union's transition from a centralized to a decentralized society, as well as its transformation from a central to a market economy and its international security during this transition.
Krushchev has recently spoken at Carnegie Mellon University, Houston World Affairs Council, Angelo State University, Northeastern University, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond, Bemis Free Lectures Series, Bryant College, Institute for Defense Analyses, Department of the Navy, St. Margaret’s-McTernan School, Skyscrapers Inc. and Greater Providence Retired Teachers Association.
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 Unregistered Bull
When Nikita Krushchev, big boss of Russia, laid down the law and laid off Malenkov awhile back, he lied about Russian stockmen by failing to tell the whole truth.
What Nikita didn't say was that the Russian system of government, not the Russian farmer, is primarily responsible for poor agricultural production there.
Only when the stock isn't really his; only when he can never hope to own any stock; and only when grain supplies are limited, as they are in Russia, because grain farmers have to produce under the same conditions as the stockmen.
www.livestockweekly.com /papers/00/02/24/scbull.asp   (634 words)

  
 The Cold War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
According to Nikita Krushchev's memoirs, in May 1962 he conceived the idea of placing intermediate range missiles in Cuba as a means of countering an emerging lead of the United States in developing and deploying missiles.
On October 26, Krushchev sent a letter to Kennedy suggesting that the sites would be dismantled if the United States gave its reassurance that it would not invade Cuba.
Following on October 28, Krushchev announced that the sites would be dismantled; as well as, the removal of light bombers.
www.bergen.org /AAST/projects/ColdWar/Pol/cuba.html   (216 words)

  
 America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945 - 2002 | Web Links
Biography of Nikita Krushchev, with accompanying excerpts from his memoirs.
Speach accusing Stalin and the “cult of the individual” of crimes against the Communist Party.
Krushchev's analysis of the validity and ideology of Stalin
highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072849037/student_view0/chapter7/web_links.html   (286 words)

  
 The Good, The Great & The Gifted | Nikita Khrushchev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Nikita Sergeyevich Krushchev was born in 1894 in Kalinovka, KurskProvince, the child of peasants.
Involved in Soviet politics from the 1920s and holding a number of prominent positions, he became First Secretary of the Communist Party after the death of Stalin in 1953.
Krushchev died in 1971 after living the final seven years of his life in relative obscurity.
www.nga.gov.au /Exhibition/KarshShmith/Detail.cfm?IRN=49383&MnuID=1   (167 words)

  
 "A GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND"
Following their leader Nikita Krushchev, whose airport greeting (see cover) all but smothered the new hero, the people of Moscow in hundreds of thousands turned out to cheer Gagarin.
Their excitement began on Wednesday morning when the Moscow radio broke into a regular program to announce that a Soviet pilot had been launched and was still in orbit.
Comrade Krushchev even called him a "space swallow" and smiled approvingly as Yuri declared himself eager to seek glory again beyond the pull of gravity.
www.life.com /Life/space/giantleap/sec1/sec3.html   (201 words)

  
 Crusader 26 Page 5
The theory of the Pope is the clearest and most concentrated expression of the spirit of external legalism and worldliness which has considerably penetrated into the teaching and life of the Catholic Church.
It is well known to all that N. Krushchev, head of the Soviet delegation to the sixth session of the General Assembly of the UN, submitted for the discussion in the UN basic proposals for an agreement on universal and total disarmament.
The concern of the Pope for peace, said Krushchev, was proof that he was taking into consideration "the feelings of millions of Catholics all over the world.
www.fatima.org /crusader/cr26/cr26pg05.asp   (1917 words)

  
 VEA : Articles : VJE Detail
Winston Churchill: a British President who led British forces in World War II at the Battle of Waterloo; a U.S. General of the Civil War Era; the Russian dictator during World War I. Nikita Krushchev: a Russian ballet dancer who stared in La Femme Nikita.
Despite the howlers listed above for Winston Churchill, he was the most well known of the group and was correctly identified by 438, or 61.3 percent, of the participants.
Nikita Krushchev, by comparison, was known to only 173 (24.2 percent) of the respondents, and Benito Mussolini to 365 (51.1 percent).
www.veaweteach.org /articles_vje_detail.asp?ContentID=1718   (1410 words)

  
 Former Soviet leader's son to visit PSU
Sergei Khrushchev, the son of the former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev will be visiting Penn State to give a talk on "The Russian Road to Capitalism" at noon tomorrow.
In addition, his research focuses on the former Soviet Union's transition from centralized to decentralized society, as well as its transformation from a central to a market economy and its international security during this transition.
Krushchev's book, Nikita Krushchev: The Creation of a Superpower, was published by Penn State Press last spring.
www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2000/11/11-29-00tdc/11-29-00dnews-7.asp   (261 words)

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