(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 ...

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 ...

Russia's annexation of Crimea was recognized internationally only by countries such as North Korea and Sudan. In Russia, it ...

Khrushchev must contend with the equally ambitious and often incompetent members of Stalin’s cabinet, and Buscemi’s portrayal captures both the character’s vulnerability and sharp-witted ...

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 ...

Stalin had accused them of collaborating with ... Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred the peninsula from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the USSR, to commemorate the ...

The Death of Stalin (streaming on Pluto TV ... Steve Buscemi plays Nikita Khrushchev—but he gets at deeper truths. The story takes place following the sudden death of the titular dictator.

The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.

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 ...