Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev Никита Хрущёв
Khrushchev in 1961.
Born	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв 15 April 1894 Kalinovka, Russian Empire
Died	11 September 1971 Moscow, Soviet Union
Cause of death	Heart attack
Nationality	Russian
Ideology	Revisionism (Khrushchevism) Opportunism
Political party	CPSU

Nikita Khrushchev (15 April 1894–11 September 1971) was a Soviet revisionist politician who is responsible for the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union, de-Stalinization, and other policies under his tenure of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union beginning in the 1950s. Khrushchev rose to prominence in the Soviet Communist Party following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, and, after years of consolidating power, would deliver a slanderous condemnation of Stalin and his legacy during the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956 in tandem with openly revealing the opportunist tendencies of himself and his clique.

See also

• De-Stalinization
• Leonid Brezhnev
• Soviet revisionism
• Restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union
• 20th Congress of the CPSU