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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... Read more
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... Read more
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 ... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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 ... Read more

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Khrushchev, Nikita
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Nikita Khrushchev Born: April 17, 1894 Kalinovka...premier The Soviet political leader Nikita Khrushchev was a major force in world politics...Union. Childhood and revolution Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born in Kalinovka in southern...
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev , 1894-1971, Soviet Communist...committee of the CPSU after 1939, Khrushchev was one of Stalin's close associates...from the ensuing struggle for power Khrushchev emerged victorious. He replaced...
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeievich
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeievich (1894–1971) Soviet politician, first secretary of the Communist Party (1953–64) and prime...
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev 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...
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History KHRUSHCHEV, NIKITA SERGEYEVICH (1894 – 1971), leader of the USSR during the first decade after Stalin's death. Nikita Khrushchev rose from obscurity into Stalin's inner circle, unexpectedly triumphed...
Bulganin, Nikolai Alexandrovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Minister (1955 – 1958) under Nikita Khrushchev. Bulganin made his career mainly as...subsequently retired in 1960. See also: khrushchev, nikita sergeyevich bibliography Khrushchev, Nikita. (1974). Khrushchev Remembers: The...
Anti-Party Group
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Party Group, so called by Nikita Khrushchev, whom it tried to oust from...Communist Party. See also: khrushchev, nikita sergeyevich; malenkov, georgy...Linden, Carl A. (1966). Khrushchev and the Soviet Leadership...
Cult of Personality
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...the Communist Party in 1956, Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin's...denigrating the cult of Stalin, Khrushchev reinvigorated the cult of Lenin...he had consolidated power, Nikita Khrushchev focused on destroying Stalin...
Aleksei Ivanovich Adzhubei
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was married to the daughter of Nikita Khrushchev. When his father-in-law emerged...Rada Khrushcheva, whose father Nikita was then First Secretary of the...Adzhubei's father-in-law, Khrushchev, that his own trajectory would...
Cuban Missile Crisis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...In turn, the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, promised in June to defend...uprising at the Bay of Pigs. Khrushchev was convinced that the United...with China. In April 1962, Khrushchev raised the possibility of basing...

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Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich (b. 5 Apr. 1894, d...Kaganovich , who came to rely on Khrushchev's energy and reliability without feeling threatened, because of Khrushchev's lack of formal education. Khrushchev...
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich (1894–1971) first secretary of the Communist...period of the Cold War . Despite his strong attacks on capitalism, Khrushchev pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West. A 1959 visit...
Khrushchev, Nikita (Sergeevich)
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Khrushchev, Nikita (Sergeevich) (1894–1971) Soviet statesman, Premier of the USSR (1958–64). Born in Ukraine, Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR (1953...
Summit Conferences, U.S. and Russian
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Bulganin and Communist Party chief Nikita Khrushchev, along with Prime Minister Anthony...spirit of Camp David," when Khrushchev visited Eisenhower at the presidential...deep inside Soviet airspace. Khrushchev used the opening of the summit...
Unofficial art
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...but there was a slight thaw under his successor Nikita Khrushchev, who in 1956 denounced Stalin's abuse of power...x2002;), had a public confrontation with Khrushchev about the validity of modern art. The authorities...
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...1962. In April and May 1962, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev decided to deploy Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba...mobilize, a series of letters between Kennedy and Khrushchev was supplemented by several secret unofficial channels...
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...American president John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to pursue new mechanisms for accommodation. A nuclear...Beschloss, Michael R. The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960 – 1963. New York: Harper Collins...
Powers, Gary
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met in Paris to attempt to defuse Cold War tensions...truth. The summit collapsed amid angry charges from Khrushchev; Powers was tried as a spy, convicted, and sentenced...
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...representatives of the USSR, United Kingdom, and United States, after U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev reached a compromise. Entered into force on October 10, 1963, it prohibits “any nuclear weapon test...
Berlin Wall Crisis
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...Berlin Wall Crisis a heightened period of tension between the United States and the USSR, after the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev supported the efforts of East Germany's leader to close the sector borders between East and West Berlin, first...

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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, volume 2: Reformer (1945-1964).(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, volume 2: Reformer (1945...US (cloth). Large Sections of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs were published in English...documents about the harassment of Nikita Khrushchev by the Soviet leadership because...
Burying Nikita. (Books).(Khrushchev: The Man and His Era )(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The National Interest; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...THE BABY boomers among us, Nikita Khrushchev was the personification of the...gone wobbly on the image of Nikita Khrushchev will find new stability in William...several hundred pages, however, Nikita Khrushchev does not seem as complicated...
Nikita Khrushchev.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Nikita Khrushchev William Taubman, Sergei Khrushchev...impressed by modish attempts to compare Khrushchev's `codes of speech in the communication...Troyanovsy on foreign policy and by Nikita's son Sergei Khrushchev on his control of the military...
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev" Reformer, 1945-1964. Edited by Sergei Khrushchev. (Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 2006. Pp. 865. $65.00.) Nikita Khrushchev's second volume of memoirs covers his rise...
Sovieticus. (accomplishments of Nikita Khrushchev) (column)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 10/20/1984; ; 700+ words ; ...good they achieved than Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet...later. And today, Khrushchev is the only former supreme...history to remember him as Nikita the Good, a benevolent...found it. Moreover, Khrushchev was never a despot or...
Nikita Khrushchev and the fine art of political bluster Kremlin secrets / Cold war notes released
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/15/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...feed its people, and a leader, Nikita Khrushchev, struggling to assert himself...Kosygin and Anastas Mikoyan, Khrushchev suggested sending a stern letter...Party leader, at this point Khrushchev did not always get his way...
Happy Anniversary, Nikita Khrushchev
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...to let the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev's famous "secret speech...totalitarian regime there. Since Khrushchev's secret speech was the first...actually were. In essence, Khrushchev's speech (which didn't remain...
Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 3/22/2007; ; 431 words ; Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary. Aleksandr...ever, exposing how Moscow made foreign policy decisions during Nikita Khrushchev's tempestuous reign as leader of the Soviet Union from 1955...
Nikita Khrushchev; leader's grandson.(Capital Region)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/23/2007; 512 words ; ...Byline: Associated Press MOSCOW - Nikita Khrushchev, the grandson and namesake of...his aunt said. He was 47. Khrushchev had been hospitalized after suffering...Khrushcheva told The Associated Press. Khrushchev - one of six grandchildren of...
Stalin denounced by Nikita Khrushchev.(February's Anniversaries)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/2006; 700+ words ; ...listened to an amazing speech by Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the party...Cult and its Consequences'. Khrushchev denounced Stalin, the cult of...huge areas of Soviet territory. Khrushchev's audience heard him in almost...