Nikita khrushchev biography ukraine language

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.

Nikita khrushchev biography ukraine language

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. 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