The Soviet political leader Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1894-1971) was a major force in world politics in the post-Stalin period. Nikita Khrushchev was born in Kalinovka in southern Russia on April 17, 1894. At 15 he became an apprentice mechanic in...

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the first overall leader of the Soviet Union to have risen entirely within the ranks of the organized party apparatus (see Communist Party of the Soviet Union), being of the generation after the original leaders who...

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Taubman, William, Sergei Khrushchev, and Abbott Gleason, eds.; trans. David Gehrenbeck, Eileen Kane, and Alla Bashenko Nikita Khrushchev New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 392 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-300-07635-5 Publication Date: May 2000 Nikita Khrushchev occupies a key and intriguing position in...

SOVIETICUS. Few political leaders have been less honored for the good they achieved than Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union out of the terror-ridden wasteland of Stalinism. Overthrown by the political elite twenty years ago this month, on October 14, 1964,...

Set on a knoll overlooking an oxbow bend in the Moscow River, the hallowed ground of the Novodevichy Cemetery holds the remains of scores of engineers, artists and politicians who helped shape Russia's tormented past century.They include the loved and the loathed, the tragic and...

Today is Tuesday, March 27, the 86th day of 2007. There are 279 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 27, 1977, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on the...

Questions why a policy of de-Stalinisation was carried out by Khrushchev after he became leader of the Soviet Union. Describes how the policy caused even further problems in Hungary and Poland.