The Khrushchev s Influence On The Soviet Revolution

Nikita Khrushchev, by Hayden Kennedy Khrushchev was born on April, 15, 1894 in Kalinovka, a small town near the Ukraine border. He joined the communist Bolsheviks in 1918, which was more than a year after they seized power in the Russian Revolution. During the Russian Civil War, his first wife died of typhus, leaving him with 2 children. He remarried and had four more kids. Khrushchev rose through the communist ranks after moving to Moscow in 1929. He eventually entered Dictator Stalin’s inner circle. By that time, Stalin had been instituting his power in removing possible enemies. In World War II, Khrushchev organized troops to fight Nazi Germany in the Ukraine and Stalingrad. He helped rebuild the countryside while at the same time†¦show more content†¦Until the speech, it was still considered unthinkable to say anything negative about Stalin. At the time, his revelations were groundbreaking. Starting in 1957, Khrushchev made some minor attempts to restore Stalin’s image. But he changed tactics in 1961, when the city of Stalingrad was renamed and Stalin’s remains were removed from Lenin’s mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square. On the domestic front, Khrushchev worked to increase agricultural production and raise living standards. He also reduced the control of the Soviet Union’s feared secret police; released many immorally accused political prisoners, released control of artistic censorship, opened more of the country to foreign visitors, and commenced the space age in 1957 with the launch of the satellite Sputnik. Khrushchev had a complex relationship with the West. A strong believer in communism, he also preferred peace with capitalist nations. He even visited the United States, unlike Stalin. Good relations between the two superpowers decayed a little in 1960 when the Soviets shot down an American U-2 spy plane deep inside their territory. The following year, Khrushchev allowed the building of the Berlin Wall in order to prevent East Germans from fleeing to capitalist West Germany. He once flew to a summit in London in a half-completed prototype passenger jet to demonstrate the advanced