USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country’s Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.

Detailed explanation-2: -Khrushchev Thaw In September 1953, Nikita Khrushchev emerged as leader of the Soviet Union upon becoming the First Secretary of the Communist Party. He consolidated his power further after becoming Chairman of the Council of Ministers on 27 March 1958.

Detailed explanation-3: -Khrushchev and the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, 1956. In February, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev made a keynote address to international communist leaders at the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-4: -Upon replacing Khrushchev as the party’s First Secretary, Brezhnev became the de jure supreme authority of the Soviet Union. However, he was initially forced to govern as part of a troika alongside the country’s Premier, Alexei Kosygin, and the party’s Second Secretary, Nikolai Podgorny.