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Nikita Khrushchev became first secretary, (second in command) of the Moscow Communist Party in 1935 under Joseph Stalin.
In 1939, became a full
member of the Politburo.
Became Premier of the
Soviet Union in 1958. Khrushchev
Born in Kalinovka to an illiterate family in 1894.
Father worked as a farmer and a coal miner.
Family was unable to survive as farmers and moved to an industrial center in Ukraine in 1908.
Nikita began working in a factory.
At age 18, Khrushchev joined a group of workers who organized a strike for better working conditions.
Nikita continued his activism by helping organize strikes through 1916.
In 1917, Khrushchev joins Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War, and served as a political commissar. Russian Civil War Map-
Picture 2
Received training from the
Industrial Academy in Moscow,
and upon graduation, was
appointed a political post in
Ukraine.
After Stalin (right) won power
over Leon Trotsky and Nikolai
Bukharin, Khrushchev eventually
rose to first secretary of the
Communist Party in 1935.
Became a full member of the
Politburo in 1939.
Rise to power corresponded with
the Great Terror in Russia.
Joseph Stalin-Picture 3
In 1941, Khrushchev sent to head the Communist
Party in Ukraine.
After the Nazis were driven out of Ukraine in 1944,
Khrushchev was responsible for restoring agricultural
production, establishing order, and punishing traitors.
He returned to Moscow in 1949.
Stalin died in 1953. Khrushchev and
Nikolai Bulganin (right) won power over
Stalin’s successor Georgi Malenkov and
secret police chief Lavrenti Beria. Bulganin
became premier in 1955, but Khrushchev
was in charge of the Communist Party.
In 1956, Khrushchev gave his Secret
Speech to the 20th Party Congress,
attacking Stalin’s dictatorship and crimes
against the people. De-Stalinization .
Ordered an invasion on Budapest to
destroy 1956 Hungarian Revolution. App.
2500 civilians were killed and 13000 were
wounded. Nikolai Bulganin-Picture 4
Khrushchev was promoted to Premier of the Soviet Union when Nikolai Bulganin resigned from office in 1958. Khrushchev was Premier from 1958-1964.
Advocated many reforms with agriculture, industry, and administrative office.
Reform advocacy contributed to an upsurge of independence movements in Eastern Europe.
Believed in peaceful-coexistence with
the West, but still boasted about the
Soviet’s destructive power.
Khrushchev initiated the Soviet Space
Program that launched Sputnik,
giving the Soviet Union a head start in
the space race.
Also negotiated with John F. Kennedy
for a joint moon program, which
ended when Kennedy was
assassinated in 1963.
Khrushchev and Kennedy-Picture 5
Approved the construction
of the Berlin Wall in 1961,
further damaging relations
with the West.
Began the deployment of
nuclear weapons into Cuba,
leading to the Cuban
Missile Crisis of 1962.
Building the Berlin Wall-Picture 6
Soviet Launch Site in San Cristobal, Cuba
Reforms, agricultural stagnation, and erratic political policies had alienated him from many powerful Soviet political groups.
On October 15, 1964, Khrushchev was ousted
out of the Premiership by Leonid Brezhnev.
In 1966, Khrushchev was dropped from the Communist Party’s Central Committee.
Became one of Stalin’s top advisors as First Secretary of the Communist Party.
Policy of De-Stalinization drastically changed politics in the Soviet Union, such as independence movements in Soviet satellite nations and an end to the prominent role forced-labor played in the economy.
Became Premier of the Soviet Union in 1958. Believed in peaceful-coexistence with the West.Well-known for his liberalization policies and reforms.
Played a major role in many crises between the West
and Russia. (Berlin Wall, Cuban Crisis.)Khrushchev died on September 11, 1971.