Stalin’s death brought an uncertain pause – a fleeting hope that the days ahead might be quieter. For those who longed for ...

No one.” Nikita Khrushchev supported Stalin’s purges and even partici-pated in them. For 10 years Khrushchev, a Russian, was the Communist Party’s leader in the Ukraine, and from that post ...

(photo credit: CENTRAL PRESS/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES) By 1953 and the death of Russian leader Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev had experienced a remarkable rise from the industrial provinces ...

Said Khrushchev ... Its chief prophet was Vasily Robertovich Williams, a Moscow-born scientist of Welsh descent, who sold the scheme to Stalin as a way to skimp on fertilizer.

the men who sycophantically sang Stalin’s praise alive now scorned him dead. Chunky, jug-eared Khrushchev set the tone for this as for everything else when, in a perfunctory tribute to comrades ...

A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile ...

Several Soviet leaders were worried that Beria was hoping to become as powerful as Stalin had been. And so in July of that year, Nikita Khrushchev arranged to have him arrested, denouncing him as ...

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...

Khrushchev succeeded Georgy Malenkov as head of the Soviet Communist Party, on March 14 1953, just nine days after Stalin’s death. In 11 years, the gregarious commissar left his mark on the world.