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Nikita Khrushchev was the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and premier of the Soviet Union, known for leading the Soviet Union during some parts of the Cold War.

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Nikita Khrushchev was the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and premier of the Soviet Union, known for leading the Soviet Union during some parts of the Cold War.

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EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

  • Nikita Khrushchev born as Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev on April 17, 1894 or April 5, 1894 in Old Style.
  • He was born in Kalinovka, Russia.
  • Khrushchev’s parents were poor Russian peasants, Sergei Khrushchev and Xeniya Khrushcheva.
  • Khrushchev worked as a herdsboy at a young age.
  • Khrushchev was schooled for four years at the village parochial school and under Shevchenko’s tutelage at state school in Kalinovka.
  • In 1908, Khrushchev followed his father who moved to the Donbas City of Yuzovka, now known as Donetsk in Ukraine.
  • Khrushchev’s parents found him a place as a metal fitter’s apprentice.
  • After completing his apprenticeship, he was hired by the factory.
  • Khrushchev lost his job at the factory when he collected money for the families of the victims of the Lena Goldfields massacre.
  • Khrushchev was also hired to mend underground equipment by a mine in Rutchenkovo, where his father was working as the union organizer.
  • Khrushchev helped in distributing copies and organizing public readings of the Pravda, a Russian broadsheet newspaper which was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

WORLD WAR I

  • When the First World War broke out in 1914, Khrushchev got exempted from conscription because he was identified as a skilled metal worker.
  • That same year, he married Yefrosinia Pisareva.
  • Pisareva was the daughter of a lift operator at the mine in Rutchenkovo where Khrushchev was working.
  • A year after, in 1915, the couple had a daughter whom they named Yulia.
  • In 1917, the couple had a son whom they named Leonid.
  • In 1918, during the struggle between Reds, Whites, and Ukrainian nationalists on the possession of Ukraine, Khrushchev became a member of the Russian Communist Party.

AS A MEMBER OF THE RED ARMY

  • In January 1919, Khrushchev joined the Red Army or the Russian Krasnaya Armiya, where he served as a junior political commissar.
  • Khrushchev rose from being a commissar to a construction platoon to being a commissar to a construction battalion.
  • In 1921, when the Civil War ended, Khrushchev was demobilized and assigned as commissar to a labor brigade in the Donbas.
  • The war caused widespread famine which also caused the death of his wife, Yefrosinia.
  • In 1922, Khrushchev secured admission to a new Soviet workers’ school in Yuzovka. While there, he received secondary education along with additional party instruction.
  • Khrushchev later became a student political leader and was appointed as secretary of the Communist Party Committee at the school.
  • Khrushchev’s studies were aided by Nina Petrovna.
  • Petrovna was a well-educated party organizer.
  • In 1924, Khrushchev married Petrovna, his second wife.

POLITICAL CAREER

  • In 1925, Khrushchev worked as a party secretary of the Petrovsko-Mariinsk district of Yuzovka.
  • Khrushchev was later on invited to accompany Lazar Kaganovich, the Ukrainian Party’s Central Committee secretary general, as a non-voting delegate to the 14th Party Congress in Moscow.
  • He then Khrushchev became an active party organizer.
  • In 1929, Khrushchev received permission to study metallurgy at the Stalin Industrial Academy. He was later appointed as secretary of the academy’s Party Committee.
  • In 1931, Khrushchev went back to Moscow to work full-time as a party organizer.
  • In 1933, Khrushchev became the second secretary of the Moscow Regional Committee.
  • In 1935, Khrushchev received the Order of Lenin after supervising the completion of the Moscow subway.
  • That same year, he became the first secretary of the Moscow city and regional party organization.
  • In 1936, Khrushchev became a member of the Constitutional Committee.
  • In 1937, Khrushchev became an alternate member of the Central Committee’s ruling in Politburo, and also became a member of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Supreme Soviet.
  • In 1944, after Ukraine received their freedom, Khrushchev assumed control of Ukraine as first secretary of the Ukrainian party organization.
  • In 1949, Khrushchev was called back to Moscow to take over the position as head of the Moscow City Party and to take on the appointment as secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

SOVIET UNION

  • In September 1953, Khrushchev replaced Georgy Malenkov, who was Joseph Stalin’s heir, as first secretary.
  • Khrushchev later went to Geneva, Afghanistan, and India where he showed a brash, extroverted diplomat personality which would later on be his trademark.
  • Unfortunately, he faced the repercussions of his de-Stalinization movement and had to fly to Warsaw with other Soviet leaders.
  • In March 1958, Khrushchev assumed premiership of the Soviet Union.
  • With the new power acquired, Khrushchev set a new policy of “Reform Communism.”
  • Khrushchev also promoted his doctrine of “peaceful coexistence with the noncommunist world”.
  • During the confrontation in October 1962, Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles on the promise that the United States would make no further move to overthrow Cuba’s communist government.

LATER YEARS

  • The main crisis of Khrushchev’s administration was agriculture.
  • The failure in the agricultural sector, the disagreement with China with regards to the relationship of Khrushchev with the United States, and the Cuban missiles crisis ignited the downfall of Khrushchev.
  • On October 14, 1964, Khrushchev retired from his position and lived quietly in Moscow.
  • On September 11, 1971, Khrushchev died of a heart attack. He was denied a state funeral and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

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