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

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(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

abandonment of Stalin’s system of sowing grain fields to grass every few years.* Instead of allowing almost half the valuable land to lie fallow, Khrushchev decreed that farmers henceforth will ...

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 ...

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.

One of history’s most notorious dictators, Joseph Stalin, regularly demeaned my great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, and his politburo colleagues. As Khrushchev recounted much later ...

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev launched his effort to dismantle Stalin’s dictatorship, which removed “the heavy blanket of fear” among Russians. He “scrapped” Stalin’s belief in the ...