Khrushchev
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- proper noun
- /krʊˈʃɛf/
- The President today called Khrushchev's decision statesmanlike.
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Soviet leader Khrushchev
- Premier Khrushchev
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Watch on YouTubeHe agreed to meet with with Khrushchev in Vienna early on in his term.
- He agreed to meet with with Khrushchev in Vienna early on in his term.
- After this is is happening, he says to Khrushchev, look, I'll go easy on Berlin.
- Kennedy told Khrushchev that would mean nuclear war.
- And you know, the kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev.
- In the two years up to his death, you have him making a deal with Khrushchev to take missiles out of Turkey to stop the missile crisis.
- And he didn't like what he thought were Khrushchev's reforms and also Khrushchev's pretensions to moving the Soviet Union into communism.
- The Chinese leaders, unlike Stalin or Lenin or Khrushchev, have no desire to prove the superiority of the communist system.
- And then his successor, Khrushchev, sitting in Solem's seat, literally gets up in the middle of the night and delivers the secret speech.
- But you can fault Kennedy and Khrushchev for, for getting there.
- And Khrushchev said my back is to the wall.
- And, you know, my, my mom and dad really loved him and Khrushchev trusted him.
Examples
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Do we have any sort of intelligence from the CIA on what Khrushchev is thinking?
Fiction book (2000) -
A major source of conflict between Khrushchev and his generals concerned Soviet defense policies.
Academic text (1992) -
And the reasons for that was that people like Khrushchev were really concerned about the secret police becoming too powerful.
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Kennedy told Khrushchev that would mean nuclear war.
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The following statement is the text of a letter from General Secretary Khrushchev to President Kennedy.
Fiction book (2000) -
Yet unlike Eisenhower, Khrushchev did not have the advantage of nuclear superiority.
Academic text (2018) -
The Union of Journalists was founded in 1959 during Nikita Khrushchev's tenure as General Secretary.
Academic text (1993) -
After a power struggle in the Kremlin, Khrushchev emerged as the new Soviet leader.
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During the late 1950s, Soviet Premier Khrushchev was denied permission to visit Disneyland.
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Kennedy told Khrushchev that would mean nuclear war.
Synonyms
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A Soviet leader from 1953 to 1964 who criticized Stalin and reduced his influence
A Soviet leader who led the country in the 1950s and early 1960s during the Cold War
Surface Forms
Etymology
Khrushchev is a Russian family name that comes from the old nickname khrushch, meaning 'beetle', plus the ending -ev, meaning 'son of' or 'from'. So it originally meant something like 'son of the beetle' as a simple nickname and today is used as the person's family name.