Nikita Khrushchev
Biography
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of Stalin's crimes and began de-Stalinization. He sponsored the early Soviet space program, and enactment of relatively liberal reforms in domestic policy. After some false starts, and a narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions. His proclivity toward recklessness led the Kremlin leadership to strip him of power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
Filmography
A State Film
America at War
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
In the Grip of Gazprom
Rat Pack
A History of an Assignment
Under the spell of the bomb
Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
I Invite You to My Execution
State Funeral
1964: Brazil between weapons and books
Korea: The Never-Ending War
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
How the Moon Conquered Pop
Moon: The Battles of Space
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
El Che
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes
The End of a Beautiful Epoch
