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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

This person is the son of a weak father and a dominant mother who will always feel tied to the land, but will struggle to escape the peasant mindset that surrounded him for his first 14 years.

Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk Khrushcheva

This person is born to a prosperous peasant family and studies in Lublin and Kholm until the outbreak of World War I; then this character is evacuated to an elite girl's school.

Joseph Stalin

This person is the not well-trusted lieutenant of the first Soviet leader, who wins the power struggle and takes over leadership.

Lazar Kaganovich

This person is a sycophantic chief aid who is born to a poor Jewish family in Kiev Province. This character apprentices to a shoemaker and joins the Bolsheviks in 1911.

Vyacheslav Molotov

This person is a loyal, bloodthirsty, hard-working revolutionary who serves as a foreign minister until March 1949, when...

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