Nikita khrushchev biography for kids

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, or April 5, in Old Style.
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Nikita Khrushchev ()

Nikita Khrushchev, at the signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty  ©Khrushchev was leader of the Soviet Union from until , succeeding Joseph Stalin. He presided over the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born in into a poor family near Kursk in south-western Russia. He received very little formal education. He joined the Bolshevik Party in and served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.

In , Khrushchev moved to Moscow to attend the Stalin Industrial Academy. In , he began to work full-time for the Communist Party, rising through its ranks to become first secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee in The following year he became a member of the Politburo, the highest decision-making body of the Communist Party. During World War Two, Khrushchev worked as a political commissar in the army.

Stalin died in March Khrushchev became leader of the party shortly afterwards, but it took him several years to consolidate his posit

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Born a Russian peasant in , Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev would rise from the most austere circumstances to take a leading role in some of the most transformational events in modern history. Though he is often best remembered in the West for his eccentric and often profane outbursts, it was his innate political cunning that allowed him to rise to such ståtlig heights. 

In his youth, Nikita Khrushchev worked as a manual laborer, and only received a total of four years of formal schooling. After the början of the Russian Civil War, Khrushchev joined the Bolsheviks and served in the Red Army as a kommissarie in charge of political indoctrination. He worked his way into the inner circles of the Party, and was one of the few to survive Joseph Stalin’s bloody political purges. During World War II, a failed offensive at Kharkov proposed bygd Khrushchev nearly cost him his life, but he was instead sent to Stalingrad, where the historic Russian victory helped redeem his reputation.

After the war,