Nikita Khrushchev

Known for ActingBorn 1894-04-15Died 1971-09-11Kalinovka, Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khomutovka Raion, Kursk Oblast, Russia]

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of Stalin's crimes and began de-Stalinization. He sponsored the early Soviet space program, and enactment of relatively liberal reforms in domestic policy. After some false starts, and a narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions. His proclivity toward recklessness led the Kremlin leadership to strip him of power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.Read more

Movies & web series

Rat Pack

Moon: The Battles of Space

In the Grip of Gazprom

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator

America at War

Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party

Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes

The Man Who Saved the World

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

Race for the White House

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Bobby Kennedy for President

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Korea: The Never-Ending War

Ernesto Che Guevara

Is Stalin With Us?

The Fog of War

Palme

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice

A Wall in Jerusalem

1964: Brazil between weapons and books

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

The JFK Conspiracy

How the Moon Conquered Pop

I Invite You to My Execution

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

De Gaulle, the Last King of France

Dark Side of the Moon

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

The Atomic Cafe

Sputnik Mania

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

The Spy Who Fell to Earth

State Funeral

La Rabbia

Khrushchev Does America

It Felt Like a Kiss

The End of a Beautiful Epoch

American Experience

Reagan

Naqoyqatsi

Oswald's Ghost

El Che

First Ladies

The Seven Deadly Sins

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