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Nikita Khrushchev
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
( – September 11, 1971) was a politician who led the
Soviet Union
during part of the
Cold War
. He served as
First Secretary
of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
from 1953 to 1964, and as
Chairman
of the
Council of Ministers
, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the
de-Stalinization
of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early
Soviet space program
, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with
Leonid Brezhnev
as First Secretary and
Alexei Kosygin
as Premier.
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