{"slug": "nikita-khrushchev", "label": "Nikita Khrushchev", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35314", "qid": "Q35314", "description": "leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964", "entries": 24, "years": 10, "span": [1894, 1989], "span_label": ["1894 CE", "1989 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Nikita S. 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The stroke paralyzes the right side of his body and renders him unconscious until his death on March 5.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310369#March", "title": "1953", "revid": 1371310369, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 7", "text": "September 7 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310369#September", "title": "1953", "revid": 1371310369, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin, in a speech \"On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences\", at a secret session concluding the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This is not officially made public in the Soviet Union at this time but becomes known in the West in June.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022627#February", "title": "1956", "revid": 1370022627, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 25", "text": "25 February – Nikita Khrushchev makes the speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences at the 20th Congress of the CPSU.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1266154716#February", "title": "1956 in the Soviet Union", "revid": 1266154716, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 9", "text": "March 9 – The Soviet Armed Forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022627#March", "title": "1956", "revid": 1370022627, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 – The text of Nikita Khrushchev's February attack on Stalin's reputation, \"On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences\", is first published in the West, in The New York Times.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022627#June", "title": "1956", "revid": 1370022627, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 13", "text": "June 13: in an interview to Nuovi Argomenti, Palmiro Togliatti comments the publication of Khruschev's secret speech; the PCI secretary criticize the cult of personality but expresses several doubts about the de-Stalinization politicy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353673844#Events", "title": "1956 in Italy", "revid": 1353673844, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 18", "text": "November 18 – At a reception for Western ambassadors at the Polish embassy in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev utters his famous phrase \"We will bury you\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022627#November", "title": "1956", "revid": 1370022627, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 18", "text": "18 November – \"We will bury you\" is spoken by Nikita Khrushchev.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1266154716#November", "title": "1956 in the Soviet Union", "revid": 1266154716, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1957, "year_label": "1957 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May", "text": "May – The Anti-Party Group attempts to overthrow Nikita Khrushchev.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351675164#May", "title": "1957 in the Soviet Union", "revid": 1351675164, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 27", "text": "January 27 – The 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was opened at Sverdlovsky Hall in Moscow as Nikita Khrushchev welcomed 1,500 delegates, including Communist leaders from 70 nations. For the first time, Western reporters were admitted to the conclave, held for the first time since 1956.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1266154737#January", "title": "1959 in the Soviet Union", "revid": 1266154737, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 5", "text": "February 5 – The U.S. State Department released tapes that showed that Soviet jets had shot down an unarmed American Lockheed C-130 transport plane on September 2, 1958. Transmissions between the two fighter planes, identified as \"201\" and \"218\", had been intercepted in Turkey. The Soviets denounced the tapes as a \"clumsy fake\". On the same day, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev invited U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to visit Moscow, adding that he could bring anyone, and go anywhere, he chose. In his speech, Khrushchev referred to U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and proclaimed, \"Mr. Dulles, if you so desire, then for the sake of ending the Cold War, we are even prepared to admit your victory in this war that is unwanted by the peoples. Regard yourselves, gentlemen, as victors in this war, but end it quickly.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1266154737#February", "title": "1959 in the Soviet Union", "revid": 1266154737, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "July 24", "text": "July 24 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, United States Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev engage in the \"Kitchen Debate\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370221732#July", "title": "1959", "revid": 1370221732, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 15", "text": "September 15–28 – USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his wife tour the United States, at the invitation of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370221732#September", "title": "1959", "revid": 1370221732, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 30", "text": "September 30 – Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong in Beijing.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370221732#September", "title": "1959", "revid": 1370221732, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 16", "text": "May 16 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the U-2 reconnaissance plane flights over the Soviet Union, thus aborting their summit meeting scheduled for Paris this year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#May", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 29", "text": "September 29 – At the United Nations General Assembly, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev angrily interrupts British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, banging the desk and shouting in Russian. Macmillan drily says \"I should like that to be translated, if I may\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#September", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 12", "text": "October 12 – Cold War: Shoe-banging incident – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, his way of protesting the discussion of the Soviet Union's policies toward Eastern Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#October", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 3", "text": "June 3–4: The Vienna summit, a meeting between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, is held.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353741162#Events", "title": "1961 in Austria", "revid": 1353741162, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – Vienna summit: John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev meet during two days in Vienna. They discuss nuclear tests, disarmament and Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372676854#June", "title": "1961", "revid": 1372676854, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1964, "year_label": "1964 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14–15 – Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371069587#October", "title": "1964", "revid": 1371069587, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1971, "year_label": "1971 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 11", "text": "September 11 – Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader (b. 1894)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369905382#September", "title": "1971", "revid": 1369905382, "section": "Deaths › September"}}, {"year": 1989, "year_label": "1989 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, the first Soviet leader to do so since Nikita Khrushchev in the 1960s, ending the Sino-Soviet split.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557705#May", "title": "1989", "revid": 1369557705, "section": "Events › May"}}]}