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Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (Russian: Сергей Никитич Хрущёв; 2 July 1935 – 18 June 2020) was a Soviet-born American engineer and the second son of the Cold War-era Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with his wife Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva.
Khrushchev was born on 15 April 1894, [e] [2] in Kalinovka, [3] a village in what is now Russia's Kursk Oblast (then Kursk Governorate), near the present Ukrainian border. [4] His parents, Sergei Khrushchev and Kseniya Khrushcheva, were poor Russian peasants, [5] and had a daughter two years Nikita's junior, Irina. [2]
Years later during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Gromyko met U.S. President John F. Kennedy while acting under instructions from the current Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev. In his Memoirs, Gromyko wrote that Kennedy seemed "out of touch" when he first met him, and was more "ideologically driven" than "practical". In a 1988 interview, he further ...
Khrushchev then tried to draw Malenkov to his side, warning that "Beria is sharpening his knives". [73] Khrushchev opposed the alliance between Beria and Malenkov, but he was initially unable to challenge them. Khrushchev's opportunity came in June 1953 when a spontaneous uprising against the East German communist regime broke out in East Berlin.
Khrushchev arrived in Washington, DC on 15 September 1959, landing at Andrews Air Force Base at 11:30 a.m. [11] Khrushchev was accompanied by his wife Nina, as well as his adult children (son Sergei, daughters Yulia and Rada, and son-in-law Alexey).
Portal:Soviet Union/Selected biography/1; Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 15 [O.S. April 3] 1894 – September 11, 1971) led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.
Nikita Khrushchev (journalist) (1959–2007), grandson of Nikita Khrushchev Sr. Nina Kukharchuk (1900–1984), wife of Nikita Khrushchev Sr. Nina L. Khrushcheva (born 1964), great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev Sr. Sergei Khrushchev (1935-2020), engineer and son of Nikita Khrushchev Sr.
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era was written by William Taubman, who serves as a professor of political science at Amherst College. [2] The book is the first in-depth biography of Khrushchev, [3] [4] [5] the publication of which was made possible by newly established access to archives in Russia and Ukraine, following the collapse of the Soviet Union.