Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev ( 1894-1971)
Born in Kalinovka, Khrushchev joined the Bolshevik party in 1918 and fought in the Civil War as a Red Army political officer. In 1925, he became a district party secretary. He then worked with Kaganovich, a close associate of Stalin's. He entered the Stalin Industrial Academy in Moscow in 1929. In 1935, he was appointed first secretary of the Moscow city party and then of the Moscow district party. From 1938 to 1949, he was first secretary of the Ukraine Communist Party Central Committee, as well as being prime minister of the Ukraine from 1944 to 1947. Khrushchev was a member of the CPSU Presidium from 1939 to 1964. In 1949, he became first secretary in Moscow. In a power struggle after Stalin's death in 1953, Khrushchev gained the support of the leadership rather than Malenkov. He was first secretary of the CPSU from 1953 and 1964, as well as prime minister from 1958 to the 1964. He was suddenly removed from his party and state positions in October 1964, after which he lived in total retirement.
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