Soekarno nikita khrushchev biography

Nikita Khrushchev, at the signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty  ©Khrushchev was leader of the Soviet Union from until , succeeding Joseph Stalin. He presided over the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born in into a poor family near Kursk in south-western Russia.

He received very little formal education. He joined the Bolshevik Party in and served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.

In , Khrushchev moved to Moscow to attend the Stalin Industrial Academy.

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In , he began to work full-time for the Communist Party, rising through its ranks to become first secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee in The following year he became a member of the Politburo, the highest decision-making body of the Communist Party.

During World War Two, Khrushchev worked as a political commissar in the army.

Stalin died in March Khrushchev became leader of the party shortly afterwards, but it took him several years to consolidate his posit