Nikita Khrushchev

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Soviet politician communist head of government head of state human

Nikita Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman who led the USSR during part of the Cold War, known for de-Stalinization, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and major domestic reforms.

Aliases (4)

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Soviet politician → communist → head of government → head of state → human →
awardReceived	Hero of Socialist Labour → Order of Lenin → Order of the Red Banner →
burialPlace	Novodevichy Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	heart attack →
child	Sergei Khrushchev →
citizenship	Soviet Union →
conflict	World War II →
countryOfBirth	Russian Empire →
countryOfDeath	Soviet Union →
date	1956-02-25 →
dateOfBirth	1894-04-15 →
dateOfDeath	1971-09-11 →
delivered	On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences →
describedBySource	The Great Soviet Encyclopedia →
educatedAt	Industrial Academy in Moscow →
endTime	1964-10-14 →
ethnicGroup	Ukrainian →
familyName	Khrushchev →
fullName	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev →
givenName	Nikita →
ideology	Khrushchevism → Marxism–Leninism →
knownFor	de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union → leadership during part of the Cold War → major domestic reforms in the USSR → role in the Cuban Missile Crisis →
memberOf	Communist Party of the Soviet Union →
militaryRank	Lieutenant General →
nativeLanguage	Russian →
notableAction	initiated limited cultural Thaw in the USSR →
notableEvent	Cuban Missile Crisis → Kitchen Debate → Secret Speech of 1956 →
notableWork	Virgin Lands campaign → de-Stalinization →
numberOfChildren	5 →
partOf	Soviet leadership →
patronymicName	Sergeyevich →
placeOfBirth	Kalinovka, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire →
placeOfDeath	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union →
positionHeld	First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine → First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Premier of the Soviet Union →
precededBy	Georgy Malenkov →
religion	atheism →
residence	Moscow →
signature	Nikita Khrushchev signature →
spouse	Nina Khrushcheva →
startTime	1953-09-07 → 1958-03-27 →
succeededBy	Alexei Kosygin → Leonid Brezhnev →
workLocation	Kyiv → Moscow →

Referenced by (43)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Kitchen Debate → October Crisis → Suez Crisis →	hasParticipant
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Head of Government of the Soviet Union →	positionHeldBy
Todor Zhivkov →	alliedWith
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences →	author
Novodevichy Cemetery →	burialPlaceOf
Anastas Mikoyan →	closeTo
Operation Anadyr →	commandedBy
Second Battle of Kharkov →	commanderSoviet
Secret Speech of 1956 →	deliveredBy
Nikita Khrushchev ("Khrushchev") →	familyName
Nikita Khrushchev ("Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev") →	fullName
Secret Speech of 1956 →	hasAuthor
Operation Anadyr →	hasCommander
Paris Summit of 1960 →	hasLeaderParticipant
Kalinovka, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire →	hasNotableNative
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis ("Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev") →	hasSubject
Soviet period →	headOfState
Nikita →	isMostFamouslyAssociatedWith
Nikita →	isUsedBy
Communist Party of the Soviet Union →	keyFigure
Berlin Crisis →	ledBy
de-Stalinization →	mainProponent
Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union →	notableGeneralSecretariesAssociated
Soviet Union →	notableLeader
United States–Soviet Union relations →	notableLeaderUSSR
Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR →	officeHolder
Supreme Commander-in-Chief (Soviet Union) →	officeHoldersInclude
Missile Scare →	participant
U-2 incident of 1960 →	plannedMeetingParticipants
Powers incident →	politicalLeaderInvolved
Leonid Brezhnev →	predecessor
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty →	signedBy
Polish October 1956 →	significantPerson
Battle of Kiev (1941) →	SovietCommander
Cuban Missile Crisis →	SovietLeader
U-2 incident of 1960 →	SovietLeaderAtTime
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences →	speaker
Nina Khrushcheva →	spouse
Nina Khrushcheva →	spouseOfHeadOfGovernment
de-Stalinization ("Khrushchev era") →	timePeriod