Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev

Standard Name: Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich
Used Form: Nikita Khruschev

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politics Christina Stead
Back in London in 1953 after Stalin 's death, CS began to understand what a stigma it was at this date to be a Communist. She nevertheless remained faithful to her partner's hard-line politics even...

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5 March 1953: Joseph Stalin, long-time ruler of the USSR,...

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5 March 1953

Joseph Stalin , long-time ruler of the USSR, died of a stroke; his body was embalmed, and lay in state for three days, during which time crowds massed to view their former leader.
Oxford Reference. http://www.oxfordreference.com.

23 December 1953: On orders from Nikita Krushchev, Lavrenty...

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23 December 1953

On orders from Nikita Krushchev , Lavrenty Beria (former head of Stalin 's NKVD ) was shot dead in secret by a firing squad. He was cremated and his ashes dispersed by a fan.
Strauss, Julian. “Stalin’s depraved executioner has grip on Moscow”. Daily Telegraph, 23 Dec. 2003, p. 11.
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14-25 February 1956: The Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist...

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14-25 February 1956

The Twentieth Congress of the SovietCommunist Party sowed the seeds of de-Stalinization. It opened with a report from Khrushchev critical of Stalin , and closed with his revelation of some selected truths about Stalin's...

25 February 1956: The Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist...

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25 February 1956

The Twentieth Congress of the SovietCommunist Party ended with a speech by Nikita Khrushchev , which mentioned for the first time some of Stalin 's political assassinations and general repression.
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, and Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. “Foreword”. The cult of the individual, Guardian News and Media, 2007, pp. 5-6.
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April 1956: Nikita Khrushchev made another important...

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April 1956

Nikita Khrushchev made another important speech reflecting a change in Soviet opinion about the legacy of Joseph Stalin .
Anderson, Perry. “The Age of EJH”. London Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2002, pp. 3-7.
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17 August 1961: The Berlin Wall was built to separate the...

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17 August 1961

The Berlin Wall was built to separate the western sections of Berlin (under the rule of the Allied Powers of World War II) from the eastern section (under Soviet rule).
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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Ascherson, Neal. “The Media Did It”. London Review of Books, 21 June 2007, pp. 25-7.
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1962: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the...

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1962

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's novels about the Soviet Russian system of forced-labour camps, was published in the cautiously reform-minded journal Novy Mir.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. “Like a Thunderbolt”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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19 June 1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshovka...

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19 June 1963

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshovka returned to Earth aboard the spaceship Vostok VI, after making forty-eight revolutions of the globe in less than three days and becoming the first woman to circle the globe in...

30 August 1963: Nearly a year after the Cuban missile crisis,...

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30 August 1963

Nearly a year after the Cuban missile crisis, a hot-line telephone was installed linking the Kremlin in Moscow (seat of the government of the USSR) and the White House in Washington, DC.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
30 August 2011

Texts

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, and Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. “Foreword”. The cult of the individual, Guardian News and Media, 2007, pp. 5-6.
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, and Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev. The cult of the individual. Guardian News and Media, 2007.