Nikita Khrushchev improved, for the better, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. Throughout his time of power, he strived to organize Russia and to improve its agricultural and industrial situation. His rise to power was not of the type found in Stalin's past, but it was the basis for his style within the political realm of Russia. Even his fall was atypical to those that came before him (Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia 359).
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev's tale of his rise to power was a long one, and very humbling. He was the son of a very poor farmer, and was born under the thatched roof of his grandfather's mud hut in a small village called Kalinovka, Russia. Khrushchev's grandfather was also a farmer, but was a serf to his master until Tzar Alexander II abolished it in 1861. When Khrushchev was fourteen, his father decided to abandon farming altogether and moved the family to a small industrial town in Ukraine named Yuzovka. While there, he worked as a miner in the local......
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