Khrushchev, Nikita

[ (ni-kee-tuh kroosh-chawf, kroohsh-chef, kroohsh-chawf) ]

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A Soviet political leader of the twentieth century. Khrushchev, who was premier of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s, led a campaign, called de-Stalinization, to remove the influence of the late premier Joseph Stalin from Soviet society. He urged peaceful coexistence between his country and Western nations. Within the Soviet Bloc, however, Khrushchev suppressed resistance to communist government, sending troops into Hungary in 1956. He also aided the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba. He had Soviet military missiles installed there but removed them at the insistence of the United States. (See Cuban missile crisis.)

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How to use Khrushchev, Nikita in a sentence

There were, for example, a lot of jokes about Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Chernenko, and Andropov.
Inside ‘Leviathan’: Russian Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Award-Winning Anti-Putin Cannes Film|Richard Porton|May 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Did Nikita Mikhalkov, the Russian director known as a Putin supporter, sign?
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Allen Dulles probably would have loved nothing more than for Nikita Khrushchev to open up a Facebook account.
Putin Was Right: This Internet Thing Really Was Created by the CIA|Eli Lake|April 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the American telling of history, Khrushchev the elder ultimately backed down.
Khrushchev’s Son: “Russia Will Never Surrender”|Josh Rogin|April 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Khrushchev wanted to streamline the process by placing both sides of the project under one administration, according to Sergei.
Khrushchev’s Son: “Russia Will Never Surrender”|Josh Rogin|April 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One of them, the forger Nikita, is returning to his native land; he is wounded in the leg and it is hard for him to walk.
Contemporary Russian Novelists|Serge Persky
After pocketing gifts of money and various other things, the false pilgrim pursues his way, still accompanied by Nikita.
Contemporary Russian Novelists|Serge Persky
Soon after this Nikita, attended by the king and his followers, reaches the palace of the royal heroine, Helena the Fair.
Russian Fairy Tales|W. R. S. Ralston
Nikita obtains the mace he wants, which weighs fifty poods, or nearly a ton, and leaves the forge.
Russian Fairy Tales|W. R. S. Ralston
And Nikita made allusions to this "grand refusal" all his life and with a face of honest pride.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1|Henry Baerlein