Then-Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, left, walks with US president John F. Kennedy at the residence of the US ambassador in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 1961. (AP Photo, File) ...

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born on April 15, 1894, in the village of Kalinovka, near the Ukrainian border. His early years were marked by hardship and rural poverty.

Five months ago. when Nikita Khrushchev was engaged in mortal political battle with Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich, it was Marshal Georgy Zhukov who came to Khrushchev's rescue in a crucial ...

US President Dwight Eisenhower (1890 - 1965) (left) and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1874 - 1971) at Camp David, Maryland, September 25, 1959.

Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate created a portrait of the Soviets in WW2 that revealed "the grand sweep of ... One instance came in 1956 when Nikita Khrushchev was presiding over his first ...

MOSCOW — Yulia Khrushcheva sat in the afternoon shadows of her Moscow kitchen, her delicate fingers brushing back her silver blond hair, talking of the anguish of seeing her family's ...

He didn’t, of course, mention Khrushchev, but it was fully Khrushchev’s initiative in 1959 and 1960 to press for the rights of formerly colonized nations at the United Nations. Robert Service ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, about her visit to Russia and how life has changed during its war on Ukraine.