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Nikita Khrushchev

1894 - 1971

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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964. During his tenure, he stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor Joseph Stalin and embarked on a campaign of de-Stalinization with his key ally Anastas Mikoyan. Khrushchev sponsored the early Soviet space program and presided over various domestic reforms. After some false starts, and a narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikita Khrushchev is the 119th most popular politician (down from 70th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Russia (down from 11th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Politician.

Nikita Khrushchev was the Soviet Premier from 1953 to 1964. He is most famous for his speech at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, where he denounced the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nikita Khrushchev ranks 119 out of 19,576. Before him are Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, Selim II, Frederick the Great, Francisco Franco, Justinian I, and Angela Merkel. After him are Muammar Gaddafi, Harald V of Norway, Leonid Brezhnev, Nebuchadnezzar II, Basil II, and Brutus the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Nikita Khrushchev ranks 2. Before him is Edward VIII. After him are Rudolf Hess, Gavrilo Princip, Aldous Huxley, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Georges Lemaître, Boris III of Bulgaria, Jean Renoir, Maximilian Kolbe, and John Ford. Among people deceased in 1971, Nikita Khrushchev ranks 2. Before him is Igor Stravinsky. After him are Coco Chanel, Lawrence Bragg, Louis Armstrong, Jim Morrison, Paul Karrer, John Boyd Orr, György Lukács, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Audie Murphy, and Giorgos Seferis.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikita Khrushchev ranks 15 out of 3,761. Before him are Kim Jong-il (1941), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Peter the Great (1672), and Anton Chekhov (1860). After him are Grigori Rasputin (1869), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), and Ayn Rand (1905).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Nikita Khrushchev ranks 7. Before him are Vladimir Lenin (1870), Vladimir Putin (1952), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), and Peter the Great (1672). After him are Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Yuri Andropov (1914), Alexander II of Russia (1818), Alexander III of Russia (1845), and Konstantin Chernenko (1911).

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