Khrushchev

[kroosh-chef, -chawf, kroosh-, khroo-shchyawf]

noun

1. Nikita S(ergeyevich) 1894–1971, Russian political leader: premier of the U.S.S.R. 1958–64.

Khrushchev

/ ˈkrʊstʃɒf, xruˈʃtʃɔf, kruːsˈtʃɒf /

noun

1. Nikita Sergeyevich (niˈkitə sɪrˈɡjejɪvitʃ). 1894–1971, Soviet statesman; premier of the Soviet Union (1958–64). After Stalin's death he became first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1953–64) and initiated a policy to remove the influence of Stalin (1956). As premier, he pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, but alienated Communist China

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Mr. Plokhy quotes Nikita Khrushchev’s worry that Americans “would have discovered that we were in a relatively weak position, and that realization might have encouraged them to attack us.”

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Crimea was first annexed by Tsarist Russia under Catherine the Great in 1783 and largely remained part of Russia until Khrushchev's decision.

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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev famously banged his shoe at the United Nations, which had welcomed 16 new African states to its ranks.

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The best example may be the reign of Trofim Lysenko, who gained power over the entire scientific establishment of Soviet Russia beginning with Stalin’s regime and continuing under Nikita Khrushchev.

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Where, in words attributed to both Nikita Khrushchev and Winston Churchill, “the living would envy the dead.”

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