Nikita Khrushchev - Francisco Rosales

Nikita Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was in office from March 14, 1953-October 14, 1964. He was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He also was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.