Nikita Khrushchev

Alexey Kosygin succeeded Nikita Krushchev as leader of the Soviet Union on October 14, 1964.

Khrushchev came to power in 1953 after death of J. Stalin. He wasn't as heartless and evil as Stalin, so things changed a bit, while he was ruling.

Most important thing, that he done was let most of the exiled people come back to their home. Also relations with other countries improved.

One of the most characteristic thing to his time was growing of corn. He didn't only recommend, but ordered farmers to grow corn.

All together Kruchchev's time of power was more peaceful than Stalin's and people could breathe up a bit.

Richard Nixon was first to visit in peacetime.

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (from 1953-1964)

On Friday Oct. 26, 1962 Khrushchev sent two letters to President Kennedy.

The first letter was not made public. It was supposedly softer saying Russia would remove its missiles from Cuba if the U.S. would end the quarantine and garantee the U.S. would not invade Cuba. The second letter sounded harsher, seeking the removal of U.S. missiles in Turkey in return for taking Russian missiles out of Cuba.

1953, i think

Khrushchev's reforms were a series of economic and social initiatives that aimed to transform the Soviet Union from a Stalinist state into a more modern and open society. These reforms were enacted during Nikita Khrushchev's leadership of the Soviet Union between 1953 and 1964. The main elements of Khrushchev's reform program included the following:

• Decentralization of the economy and the introduction of more market elements
• Reduction of the state's control over the economy
• Relaxation of censorship and greater freedom of expression
• Greater political and legal rights for citizens
• Reform of the Soviet Union's agricultural policies
• Greater autonomy for the republics within the Soviet Union
• Introduction of new technologies, such as space exploration

Khrushchev's reforms were part of a larger effort to modernize the Soviet Union and make it more competitive with the West. His reforms were largely successful in the short term, but were eventually reversed by later leaders, such as Leonid Brezhnev. Despite this, Khrushchev's reforms remain an important part of Soviet history and their legacy can still be seen in modern Russia.

The construction of the Berlin Wall, creating two Germany's

That was The Cuban Missile Crisis. The United States discovered nuclear missiles in Cuba. During that time, tension rise to the top. Kennedy ordered low-level reconnaissance missions once every two hours but tensions finally began to ease on October 28 when Khrushchev announced that he would dismantle the installations and return the missiles to the Soviet Union, expressing his trust that the United States would not invade Cuba. Further negotiations were held to implement the October 28 agreement, including a United States demand that Soviet light bombers be removed from Cuba, and specifying the exact form and conditions of United States assurances not to invade Cuba.

The U.S.S.R. provoked the Berlin Crisis with an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of Western armed forces from West Berlin culminating with the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall.

in 1956, three years after Stalin died, party secretary khruschev gave a secret speech to the assembled communist party congress that condemned Stalin for being a tyrant. though it was secret, news did leak out, leading many to think that a period of reform was brewing. in Hungary, reformists took the lead and staged the beginnings of a revolution. soviet policy, however, had not changed that much and the revolution was crushed.

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He claimed that history was on his side.

Brezchnev suppressed dissent at home and abroad more than Khrushchev had

Nikita Khrushchev, the grandson of a serf and the son of a coal miner, was born in Kalinovka, Ukraine on 5th April,

He reduced the strength of the secret police

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In 1914, he married Galina Yefronsinya, but she died in the winter of 1921, leaving him with two young children. He remarried in 1924 to Nina Petrovna, a school teacher, and had three children with her.

Nikita Khrushchev was Premier of the USSR from 1958 to 1964, but he was the First Secretary of the Communist Party (i.e. the most important person) from 1953 to 1964.

US would NOT back down.