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Nikita Khrushchev  

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  • Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1955 until 1964. Born as the son of peasants in the Ukraine, he made a living as an industrial worker and became active in trade unions during World War I. He joined the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution in 1917 and gathered military experience with the Red Army in the Russian Civil Wars (1918–1921). [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations; Khrushchev, Nikita]

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