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== Early life and career == | == Early life and career == | ||
Nikita Khrushchev was born in a [[Peasantry|peasant]] family in 1894 in [[Kalinovka]], [[Russian Empire]]. His father worked successively as a bricklayer, miner, and railway worker; in 1911, the Khrushchev family moved to the Donbas region, to Yuzovka (present-day [[Donetsk]]), | Nikita Khrushchev was born in a [[Peasantry|peasant]] family in 1894 in [[Kalinovka]], [[Russian Empire]]. His father worked successively as a bricklayer, miner, and railway worker; in 1911, the Khrushchev family moved to the Donbas region, to Yuzovka (present-day [[Donetsk]]). In that rapidly industrializing city's mining industry, Khrushchev first worked as a miner, but eventually finished an apprenticeship in metallurgy, and finding full-time employment at a metalworking factory. | ||
As a skilled metalworker, Khrushchev was exempt from conscription into the [[First World War]].<ref name=":15216">{{Citation|author=Nikita Khrushchev|year=1970|title=MEMOIRS OF NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV. Vol. 1, Commissar (1918-1945)}}</ref> As a result, he spent that time involved in labor organizing, combining demands for better working conditions with demands for an end to the war. During this same time, he married and had two children. | As a skilled metalworker, Khrushchev was exempt from conscription into the [[First World War]].<ref name=":15216">{{Citation|author=Nikita Khrushchev|year=1970|title=MEMOIRS OF NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV. Vol. 1, Commissar (1918-1945)}}</ref> As a result, he spent that time involved in labor organizing, combining demands for better working conditions with demands for an end to the war. During this same time, he married and had two children. |