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"Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most important political leaders of the twentieth century. Without his memoirs, neither the rise and fall of the Soviet Union nor the history of the Cold War can be fully understood. By dictating his memoirs and publishing them in the West, Khrushchev transformed himself from the USSR’s leader to one of its first dissidents. His remarkably candid recollections were a harbinger of glasnost to come. Like virtually all memoirs, his have a personal and political agenda, but even what might be called Khrushchev’s "myth of himself" is vital for understanding how this colorful figure could place his contradictory stamp on his country and the world. The fact that the full text of Khrushchev’s memoirs will now be available in English is cause for rejoicing."
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Nikita Khrushchev was born an Italian born Slovak, of Japanese descent. He rose through the ranks of The Gestapo (a fierce band of unruly homosexual Pirates) to become One Eyed Willy III.
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When Nikita Khrushchev assumed leadership of the Communist Party after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, he began a domestic campaign of de-Stalinization to bring law back to the government and eliminate any competition within the party. Gaining the public's trust with this bold effort was no easy task, and Khrushchev understood the need to address the population's welfare. Part of the de-Stalinization effort called for the release of millions of political prisoners from labor camps, precipitating a housing crisis. Khrushchev quickly built millions of apartments according to simplified floor plans, dubbed khrushchovkas. On October 27 at 6:00, Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita's son and senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, talks about his father's plan and the state of contemporary Russian public housing.
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Nikita Khrushchev became prime minister of the Soviet Union on this date in 1958. Born into a peasant family, Khrushchev worked as a shepherd and a locksmith before he began to work actively in the Communist Party. He rose rapidly through the party ranks and after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, he became first secretary of the party's Central Committee, essentially the head of the Soviet Union's Communist Party. Khrushchev was an advocate of peaceful coexistence with the West, but his advocacy of nuclear weapons caused tensions with the US, culminating in 1962's Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Nikita Khrushchev was born in 1894 in the Ukraine, the son of a miner; joined the Communist Party during the Civil War. Worked his way up the Party, and was appointed Prime Minister of the Ukraine when it occupied was by the Red Army. He was appointed First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in September 1953, six months after Stalin's death. In January 1956 he delivered the famous 'secret speech' at the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU, denouncing Stalin's crimes. In his speech Khrushchev spoke of the murder of political opponents, criminal misleadership in the War and systematic rewriting of history. Khrushchev achieved the position of head of state in March 1958, holding that post until he was removed in 1964, and died while in retirement in 1971.
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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. His father was the peasant Sergei Nikanorovich Khrushchev (d. 1938 of tuberculosis); his mother was Aksinia Ivanovna Khrushcheva. He had a sister two years his junior, Irina. In 1908, his family moved to Yuzovka (now Donetsk, Ukraine). Later, since he spent much time working in Ukraine, Khrushchev gave off the impression of being Ukrainian.
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