Nikita Khrushchev

for eleven years. Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, accomplished more in these eleven years than many men had in their entire lives. Khrushchev had a huge impact on history during the Cold War era, and many things might be different today if he had never been in a leadership role. The innovations that were made in the USSR under his command, were innovations that would send the rest of the world following in their footsteps. Nikita Khrushchev was the most…

death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev became the USSR new leader. Nikita Khrushchev had revisionist policies that made Mao have little respect for Khrushchev as the Soviet Union leader and consider him as a “coward bureaucrat “. Khrushchev secret speech of February 25, 1956 in which Khrushchev called for de-Stalinization and denouncing Stalin cult of personality. Mao saw this speech as insult to him since Mao had already established a personality cult in his communist regime. When Khrushchev when to…

After the death of Stalin, there was an intense struggle for power, and the winner became first secretary Nikita Khrushchev. On the occasion of becoming a leader of the Soviet Union, he gave a speech “On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences” that is characterized by the severe criticism of the political system of the state while Stalin was ruling the country. This speech is a manifestation of the Communist ideas and ideals while it points out the most critical moments in the ruling of…

Stalin's death in 1953 marked a change in the political evolution of the Soviet Union. The new Secretary General of the Communist Party was Nikita Khrushchev. Between 1956 and 1964 there were significant changes in the USSR, although the essence of the organization of Soviet power remained. The destalinization initiated by Nikita Khrushchev in condemnation of the wave of terror imposed by the government of former leader and in recognition of the mistakes of the government in economic matters,…

Nikita did have enough power to construct such a hit, there were Soviet spies in America living, talking and acting like United States citizens. Oswald was said to be one of those spies that worked for Khrushchev, there was enough evidence to say he worked against the United States because after Oswald served as a marine he moved to Soviet Russia. Did Nikita brainwash Oswald into hating the United States enough to move back and…

closet the Cold War was to becoming a nuclear war. As a response to the attempted Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961 and the holding of American missiles in Italy and Turkey Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union leader, made an agreement with Cuba to place their missiles on the island in an attempt to prevent future invasion. Secretly, Khrushchev and Fidel Castro held a meeting in July of 1962 which reached the conclusion that multiple missile launch facilities started later that summer.…

any future missiles from entering Cuba and because of Kennedy’s several negotiations with Nikita Khrushchev. This major crisis in October of 1962 was a major problem in the during the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It was a thirteen day-long dispute over Soviet missiles positioned in Cuba, only about 90 miles away from Florida. Responding to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961, Khrushchev complied to Cuba’s request of positioning nuclear missiles in Cuba to prevent future…

The relationship between Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy were diplomatic but with tense agreement to each other back up with their nuclear artilleries. It was marked with high tensions between them. During John F. Kennedy’s administration, the economy was flourishing. He began to support the civil rights initiatives. And he made an agreement with Khrushchev so he could remove the missile sites from Cuba while Kennedy promised to remove its missiles from Turkey. Kennedy's try to control…

used fear and terror in the Communist Party to enforce their ophilisoihpies. After Stalin’s death, many leaders of the Soviet Union followed, and a few made a great impact to the fall of the Soviet Union and communism. First after Stalin was Nikita Khrushchev, who had followed Stalin and supported some of his actions. Once…

Stalin, Russian dignitaries attempt to come together to determine the direction of the Soviet Union following the death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in 1953. Under dictatorial rule for more than three decades, a power pull breaks out among Nikita Khrushchev of Moscow, Lavrentiy Baria, the head of NKVD - Russian Internal Affairs, and Stalin's General Secretary, Georgy Malenkov, as well as with other members of a hastily assembled Central Committee. That may sound simple enough, but through…