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Nikita Khrushchev Никита Хрущёв | |
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| Born | 15 April 1894 Kalinovka, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 11 September 1971 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a revisionist Soviet politician who was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Premier of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964.
Political career
Under Khrushchev's rule, the percentage of industrial workers in the CPSU was reduced to 30% and the number of white-collar officials increased to 50%.
In 1956, Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin in his "Secret Speech" and made many false claims against him. He labeled his political opponents, including Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, and Lavrentiy Beria as "Stalinists."
In June 1957, Malenkov's anti-revisionist faction won the majority in the Presidium, but Khrushchev argued that only the Central Committee could remove him from power. Khrushchev was supported by General Georgy Zhukov, who he had promoted to Commissar of Defence.[1]
Death of Stalin
Khrushchev may have been responsible for the death of Stalin, who was General Secretary from 1921 to his death in 1953. Stalin died under suspicious circumstances and Albanian leader Enver Hoxha accused Khrushchev and his allies of murdering Stalin.[2]
References
- ↑ TheFinnishBolshevik (2019-05-07). "The Khrushchev Coup (Death of Stalin & Khrushchev’s Rise to Power)" ML-Theory. Archived from the original on 2022-01-16. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
- ↑ “All this villainy emerged soon after the death, or to be more precise after the murder, of Stalin. I say after the murder of Stalin, because Mikoyan himself told me...that they, together with Khrushchev and their associates, had decided...to make an attempt on Stalin’s life”
Enver Hoxha (1981). With Stalin: Memoirs (p. 31). [MIA]