Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich (1894–1971)
Soviet communist politician. Having joined the communist party in 1918, he fought in the 1918–21 civil war and then attended technical college in the Don Basin, but did not finish the course. In 1924, he became a party worker in Ukraine and then in Moscow, where he became a district party secretary in 1931 and Moscow city party secretary in 1934–8. In 1938–49, he was first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party and concurrently in 1944–7, head of the Ukrainian government. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1934 to 1966, and in 1939–64 of its Politburo or Presidency. After Stalin’s death, he became first secretary of the CPSU in 1953–64 and concurrently prime minister in 1958–64. He was removed from his party and state positions in a coup in October 1964 and spent his final years in retirement.
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