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 | | In 1938 he was transferred to the Ukraine as first secretary of the Ukrainian party organization and made a provisional member of the party Politburo; he became a full member in 1939 and was also appointed to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. | | | In 1956, during the 20th Party Congress, Khrushchev took an unprecedented step and denounced Stalin and his methods. | | | After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, Khrushchev became first secretary of the Central Committee, in effect the head of the Communist party of the USSR. |
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| Â | Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 |
| | Khrushchev replaced Bulganin as premier in Mar., 1958, becoming undisputed leader of both state and party. | | | He replaced Malenkov as first secretary of the party in Sept., 1953, and, in 1955, Malenkov resigned as premier and was succeeded by Bulganin, a change clearly leaving Khrushchev with the advantage. | | | He toured the United States in 1959 and met with President Eisenhower at Camp David, Md., thus helping to ameliorate the international tensions created by his threat (1958) to sign a separate peace with East Germany. |
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| | On February 25, 1956, Khrushchev went before a closed session of the Twentieth Party Congress and delivered a speech that proved to be his most lasting legacy. | | | On visits to the United States, he pounded his shoe at the United Nations, ogled Marilyn Monroe’s derrière, and cheerily shovelled manure in Iowa with the locals. | | | So I became a Communist.” He served in local Party organizations in Ukraine, and in 1929 he went to Moscow, where he became involved in the city Party committee. |
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| | Khrushchev met with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1957 in Yalta, where ER went to interview him for The New York Post. | | | He died of a heart attack September 11, 1971. | | | Khrushchev's control of local party leaders secured his challenge and ultimate defeat of Malenkov. |
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| Â | CNN Cold War - Profile: Nikita Khrushchev |
| | Beria was executed, and Malenkov was forced to resign. | | | In 1917, after the Russian Revolution had ousted the Czar, Khrushchev joined the Bolshevik forces of the Red Army in the Russian civil war, serving as a political commissar. | | | After the war, Khrushchev was called back to Moscow, where he soon became one of Stalin's top advisers. |
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| Â | Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | As first secretary, Khrushchev was not only the most powerful man in the Soviet Union but also leader of the world Communist movement. | | | Party leaders announced that the nation would be ruled by a committee, headed by Georgi M. Malenkov. | | | Nikita S. Khrushchev seemed to be the least important member of the... |
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| Â | SmartEngine - SmartGuide ( ENCYCLOPEDIA : Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev ) |
| | Conquest without war, an analytical anthology of the speeches, interviews, and remarks of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev () - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, N. Mager, Jacques Katel () | | | SmartEngine - SmartGuide ( ENCYCLOPEDIA : Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev) |
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