- Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 15 [O
| Born: | 17 April 1894 Comment | | When did Nikita Khrushchev die? / Died | 11 September 1971 | | How many years did Nikita Khrushchev live? / Lived | 77 years | | Zodiac sign: | Aries |
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- April 3] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War
- He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964
- Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy
- Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier
- Khrushchev was born in the village of Kalinovka in 1894, close to the present-day border between Russia and Ukraine
- He was employed as a metalworker in his youth, and during the Russian Civil War was a political commissar
- With the help of Lazar Kaganovich, he worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy
- He supported Joseph Stalin's purges, and approved thousands of arrests
- In 1938, Stalin sent him to govern Ukraine, and he continued the purges there
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