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    Nikita Khrushchev rose to power after the death of Stalin. He was a leader who desperately worked for reform yet his reforms hardly ever accomplished their goals. He was a man who praised Stalin while he was alive but when Stalin died Khrushchev was the first to publicly denounce him. Khrushchev came to power in 1953 and stayed in power until 1964, when he was forced to resign. 	Stalin died without naming an heir, and none of his associates had the power to immediately claim supreme leadership

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    How did the worsening of ideological relations between Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev lead to the Sini-Soviet split in the 1960s? 1. History: The worsening of political and ideological relationship between Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev led to the Sino-Soviet Split. In 1960, China and Soviet Union were believed to be the two largest states with the communist approach internationally (Ross 3). The origin of Sino- Soviet split can be found from the era of 1940’s, when China fought the

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    After the death of Stalin in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the Soviet leader after a power struggle with his two competitors, Malenkov and Molotov. The intention of Khrushchev seems to have been to, after the terror of his predecessor Stalin which had dominated Soviet power since the mid-1920s, take a more sensitive approach to the challenges facing him. This was not least expressed in Khrushchev’s so called “secret speech” which he delivered at the 20th Party congress in February 1956. In his

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    Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Union leader, is often considered the initiator of the Missile Crisis. He developed the idea of taking medium-range nuclear weapons to Cuba as a means of counteracting the United States’ lead in deploying as well as developing strategic weapons. Khrushchev presented the idea to the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, as a scheme to protect Cuba from U.S. supported invasion like the failed attempt in 1961 at the Bay of Pigs (Garthoff, 2011). He was not sure if Castro would accept

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    Albee uses the characters George and Nick as paradigms of George Washington who represents the United States of America and Nikita Khrushchev who represents the Soviet Union. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was written by Edward Albee during the cold war, the references to George Washington and Nikita Khrushchev reflect the games played during the cold war and the games played within the play. The relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was consumed of a complex interaction of

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    President John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were two of the most important men during the Cuban Missile crisis; they had a lot of differences in character and response to the situation, but had some similarities as well. The two were a couple of the most influential men of their time, especially considering the tense Cold War and resulting Cuban Missile Crisis. John F. Kennedy was the youngest man to be elected president at his time, so you can imagine the pressure he must have felt as a prominent

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    Nikita Khrushchev also referred to as Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a significant historical leader in history, especially in the cold war. He had a great impact during the cold war because he did many so much improvements and progress for the Soviet Union nation. Nikita Khrushchev job during the cold war, was he led the Soviet Union, he aided the Soviets also known as the U.S.S.R. Also, he served as a premier. Khrushchev was born in a small Russian village named kalinovka on the day April 15

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    Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953. He was born in the village of Kalinovka on April 17, 1894, close to the borders between Russia and Ukraine. He was born into a world with famine and poverty, slowly this peasant boy climbed the ropes of political positions until he became the most powerful force, holding the offices of Premier of the U.S.S.R. and First Secretary of Communist Party. Communism is a far-left ethics group favoring a classless society

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    Americas (Result of the Cuban Missile Crisis). Also, it opened the way for Khrushchev to push for disarmament (Result of the Cuban Missile Crisis). This benefited the Soviet Union more than the United States, because they were behind the United States in nuclear arm power and capabilities (Result of the Cuban Missile Crisis). The way the crisis was resolved made many within the Soviet government and public see Khrushchev as weak, because he gave in too much to the United States’s demands which in

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    Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Party Congress, otherwise known as the secret speech. The main components of the reforms were changing or removing prominent institutions that had helped Stalin remain in power; the Stalinist political system, political party members that had supported him (beginning with the arrest and subsequent execution of political rival Lavrentiy Beria) and the removal of the Gulag labour camp system. Khrushchev was desperate to present himself

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