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__**Nikita Khrushchev **__ By: Jade Shipley

**Nikita Khrushchev as the political leader of the Soviet Union. His leadership played a huge role in the Cold War, a standoff between the USA and the Soviet Union. He was born in Kalinovka in Southern Russia on April 17, 1894. He was married in 1915, but his wife passed during a Civil War famine. In 1924 he was remarried and went on to have two children. At age 24, in 1918, he joined the communist party. He enrolled in the Red Army and fought in the Civil War currently going on. After nearly 3 years in service, he returned to Yuzovka and was made assistant manager of a mine. Soon after he entered the Donets Industrial Institute, a workers school ran by the new Communist ruling party, the Soviets.**




 * There he became a political leader, and was named the secretary of the schools Communist Party Committee. He graduated in 1925 and became a full-time party official as secretary of the Petrovsko-Mariinsk district of Yuzovka. There he met a close associate of future Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin. After Stalin's death he was one of the 8 left with power in their hands. When Stalin began eleminating those he didn't trust from the Communist Party's Leadership, he was fortunate enough to be one of the trusted. In 1938, when most of the chief party leaders were gone from the Ukraine, he was made first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party and at the same time, was named to the Politburo, the ruling body of the Soviet Communist Party. By being placed in this spot, though not by title, Khrushchev was basically the cheif executive of the Ukraine until 1949.**




 * Nikita went on to more schools, this time in Moscow. He left school in 1931 to become secretary of a district party committee. Within four years he became head of the party organization of Moscow, thus joining the highest ranks of party officials. There he used his industrial training while helping supervise the construction of the cities subway systems.**



**The Cold War began to escalate in 1960, when Khrushchev had talks with President Dwight Eisenhower after announcing an American spy plane had been shot down in the Soviet Union. Two years later, the United States and the Soviet Union were looking a nuclear war right in the eyes during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when America waited for Khrushchev to withdraw Soviet-owned nuclear arms from Cuba, the Soviets Communist** **ally.**




 * Khrushchev's fortunes in the Soviet Union began to eventually run short. Some of his economic projects failed and the way he handled foreign affairs resulted in many setbacks. Many Soviet party leaders became worried that he might be planning to extend his power. In October, 1964, Khrushchev was forced into retirement by other party leaders.**

After his retirement, he lived a quiet life until his death on September 11, 1971 in Moscow. He's remembered as someone trying to overpower Stalin and improve everyday life for the Soviet Union. **

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