Nikita Khrushchev Biography

Nikita Khrushchev Biography

Full Name: Mr. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
Date of Birth: April 17, 1894
Place of Birth: Kalinovka, Russia
Died: September 11, 1971
Place of Death: Moscow, Russia
Classification: Leaders & Revolutionaries


Born in Kalinovka in Russia in the mid 1890s, he was the son of a miner working in Yuzovka. At the age of 15, Nikita began working with his hands and learning the skills necessary to become a mechanic – skills that would help him later construct Russia’s subway system. This also instilled in him a set of values that would allow him to empathize with the working class people in his country. At the age of 16, he began working as a machine repairman in the same coal mines as his father.

Political ambition took Khrushchev when he joined the Communist party around 1918. During his three years of service, he went back home to manage the coal mine he once labored, but soon was given the chance to go to an industrial institute that would give him the freedom to begin working with a Communist committee near his hometown. Following this service, he went to another Industrial Academy in Moscow where he would be trained for administrative duties, and where he decided to instead join another committee in Moscow that would later have him as their head of party.

Nikita Khrushchev was given the leadership under Stalin of the Ukrainian Communist party and made a part of the Politburo, which meant that he was in essence the chief executive to the Ukraine. He ruled there for a few years until 1949, where he advanced to the rank of lieutenant general, making him undoubtedly the country’s head ruler. By 1950, Khrushchev was made the Communist party’s Secretariat, which meant that he was left with much power at Stalin’s death in 1953. Soon after, he became the party’s chief official soon after he decided to make some controversial political allies.

By the mid 1950s, the world couldn’t deny Russia’s new leader, especially by 1958 when he became the chairman of the mighty Council of Ministers. This made him the new, uncontested head of the Communist party. Surprising some in his new position, he decided to start massive campaigns known as de-Stalinization, which would end Stalin’s worst parts of governmental practices. During this time, Nikita Khrushchev brought a new light to how the outside world viewed Russia