Nikita Khrushchev * Born 1894‚ in Russian village of Kalinovka. * Fought in Red army during the civil war of 1922-23. * Then became a politician for the communist party in Moscow. Awarded the order of Lenin for his work building the Moscow underground railway. * 1949: appointed by the communist party to run soviet agriculture. * 1955: in power after Stalin’s death and in 1956 attacked Stalin’s reputation. Denouncing him as a wicked tyrant who kept all power to himself‚ and was
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Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev was born on April 15‚ 1894 in Kalinovka‚ Russia. Khrushchev was the politician who led the Soviet Union in part of the Cold War era. Khrushchev joined the Communist Party and fought in the Red Army during the Russian Revolution in 1918. He quickly rose up the party ranks‚ becoming a member of the Central Committee in 1934. On September 14‚ 1953‚ Khrushchev succeeded Joesph Stalin after his death in the beginning of the year. In a 1956 “secret speech‚” Khrushchev
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Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev was a self-made man‚ even with his unfortunate and harsh upbringing he still managed to make a name for himself. He became one of the most powerful and influential leaders in Russia‚ simultaneously holding the offices of Premier of the U.S.S.R. and First Secretary of the Communist Party. Strong willed‚ and committed‚ Nikita Khrushchev fought for what he believed in and strived to make his country‚ Russia‚ a better place. Nikita Khrushchev was born in a southern
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This policy was mirrored by the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. In the early years of his regime‚ Khrushchev slowly amassed power from the collective leadership that was in place after Stalin’s death. In 1956‚ he shocked the entire world with a leaked speech where he criticized Stalin’s cult of personality and the various crimes that were committed under his leadership. This report caused domestic upheaval within the USSR and lead Stalin’s supporters to quickly lose favor and influence within the
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To what extent was the Cuban missile crisis a factor in Nikita Khrushchev being deposed as leader of the Soviet Union? 1018-133 HL Contemporary History Word Count: 1978 Table of Contents Criterion A: Plan of Investigation pg. 3 Criterion B: Summary of Evidence pg.4-5 Criterion C: Evaluation of Sources
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Khrushchev and the cold war The Cold War started in 1945 and was a hostile time between some of the major countries in the world. During the Cold War the leader of the Soviet Union was Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev. Khrushchev came to power in 1953 after the former dictator and gave a famous secret speech that denounced the previous leader‚ Joseph Stalin‚ for his crimes against the USSR. Khrushchev was a major player during the Cuban Missile Crises and directly‚ through letters‚ communicated
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Kremlin for a majority of the Cold War‚ from 1953-1964. Khrushchev spent a great part of his time in power solidifying foreign relations and working toward the domestic unification of the Soviet Union‚ which Stalin had shredded. During his time devoted to the outer parts of the Soviet Union‚ Khrushchev dealt with many people wanting a life with the western virtues which were infringing upon other parts of the USSR. To counter this issue‚ Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall and dropped the Iron Curtain
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Soviet Union The Perceived Thawing of the Cult of Personality Nikita Khrushchev attacked Joseph Stalin at the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in his secret speech. His goals behind the presentation of the speech were self-serving in nature. Khrushchev wanted to consolidate power while at the same time distance himself from Stalin. His lack of political forethought created a specific set of problems for the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. Khrushchev’s program of de-Stalinization had a negative
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land. Yet‚ there were 3 main reasons why this project failed. Khrushchev had discouraged the use of the highly popular and efficient crop cycle and fallow land techniques. Furthermore‚ he did not provide these farms with the basic tools and materials to grow crops. He did not even provide them with fertilizer. This caused much of the farmland to be ruined and in 1960 half of all the farmland designated for this new
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Explain why Khrushchev ordered the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. There were several reasons why Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall in 1961‚ the first of which was the economic effects of free movement in between West and East Berlin. Since the division of the city‚ East Germans had been able‚ with enough money‚ to leave the GDR through Berlin which was described as a “gap in the Iron Curtain”. Between 1949 and 1961 in fact‚ up to 4 million had fled to the Western Germany‚ around 20‚000 per
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