Historical Figure
Nikita Khrushchev
1894–1971
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
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Key Dates
Birth
1894 April 17, 1894 →Biography
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. As leader of the Soviet Union, he stunned the world by denouncing his predecessor Joseph Stalin, embarking on a campaign of de-Stalinization, and presiding over the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Timeline
Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 7 →Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 13 →Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
June 26 →Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
September 29 →Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
October 12 →In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
June 4 →Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
October 28 →More from the Victorian Era
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