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Khrushchev , Nikita Sergueievich

 

Kalinovka (1894) - Moscow (1971). President of the Soviet Union (1958) - (1964). He was born near Ukraine in a family of poor peasants. In 1909 he started being employed at the mining industry. In 1918 he added to the Bolshevik Party and little later he practised, during the civil war, as commissioner of the Red Army. In the twenties he was employed at the organization of the Party at Ukraine and in 1931 he moved to Moscow, where he turned into secretary of the organization of the Party, and the following year acceded to the Politburo.

During the Second World War he took part in Stalingrad's battle and in the liberation of Kiev. In 1949, again in Moscow, he took charge of the agricultural planning in the whole USSR. Between1953 and 1956 he managed to displease several rivals in Stalin's succession. From 1956 (the year of his secret report to the XX Congress of the Party) practised as maximum Soviet leader. The name of prompt Khrushchev was associated with the end of the Stalinism and with the putting in March of reforms. In foreign affairs he tried to support a pacific line.

The bigger tensions arose with The United States when he met Eisenhower in 1959 and one year later Kennedy in Vienna. In 1962 he tried to infiltrate missiles into Cuba but it was discovered, for what he returned to be in a delicate situation. Destroyed in 1964 for his rivals, he removed from political activity, and he died seven years later. In the party Secretarial was replaced by Breznev and the presidency of Ministers' Council by Kosygin.

During the battle of Stalingrad he was leading with Yeremenko of the Stalingrad's Front.


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