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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev , 1894-1971, Soviet Communist leader, premier of the USSR (1958-64), and first secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union (1953-64).
Early Career
Of a peasant family, he worked in the plants and mines of Ukraine, joined the Communist party in 1918, a...
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin , 1895-1975, Soviet military and political leader. He held posts in industrial management, was mayor of Moscow (1931-37) and chairman of the state bank (1937-41), and served on a military council in World War II. Made a marshal and a deputy premier in 1947, and a full...
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Georgi Maksimilianovich Malenkov
Georgi Maksimilianovich Malenkov , 1902-88, Soviet Communist leader. He rose to prominence through the party secretariat and was a trusted aide of Joseph Stalin . In 1946, he became a full member of the politburo and a deputy premier. He succeeded Stalin as premier in Mar., 1953, and was also very ...
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev , 1906-82, Soviet leader. He joined (1931) the Communist party and rose steadily in its hierarchy. In 1952 he became a secretary of the party's central committee. After suffering a slight political setback following Joseph Stalin 's death (1953), Brezhnev filled a number of p...
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Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin
Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin , 1904-80, Soviet political leader. A member of the Communist party from 1927, he joined its central committee in 1939. In the 1940s, as an aide to Joseph Stalin, he became recognized as an expert in economics and industry. He held various other government and party posts...
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Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov , 1896-1974, Soviet marshal. He fought in the October Revolution (1917) and in the civil war (1918-20), which brought the Bolsheviks to power, and saw action against the Japanese on the Manchurian border (1938-39) and in the Finnish-Russian War. Promoted to full general...
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the Bay of Pigs Invasion , the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime, and in the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to install ballistic missiles in Cub...
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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov , 1890-1986, Soviet political leader. A Communist from 1906, he changed his name from Skriabin to Molotov [the hammer] to escape the imperial police. He was, however, arrested and exiled in 1909. He returned (1911) to St. Petersburg, and when the Bolshevik daily Prav...
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Geneva Conference
Geneva Conference any of various international meetings held at Geneva, Switzerland. Some of the more important ones are discussed here. 1 International conference held Apr.-July, 1954, to restore peace in Korea and Indochina . The chief participants were the United States, the Soviet Union, G...
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Gulag
Gulag system of forced-labor prison camps in the USSR, from the Russian acronym [GULag] for the Main Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps, a department of the Soviet secret police (originally the Cheka; subsequently the GPU, OGPU, NKVD, MVD, and finally the KGB). The Gulag was first established ...
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