Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Biography and Timeline — Page 2

Evacuation of Ukrainian Industry

Helps organize evacuation of industrial assets as German forces advance into Soviet Ukraine.

Role range: 1939-1945

Southwestern Front Political Council

Serves on the military council of the Southwestern Front during the German invasion.

Role range: 1939-1945

Kharkov Offensive Political Role

Serves with the Southwestern Front leadership during the failed Soviet offensive near Kharkov.

Role range: 1939-1945

Stalingrad Front Political Work

Works with Soviet military commanders during the defense and counteroffensive around Stalingrad.

Role range: 1939-1945

Return to Liberated Kiev

Returns to Kiev after Soviet forces retake the Ukrainian capital from German occupation.

Role range: 1939-1945

Promotion to Lieutenant General

Receives promotion to lieutenant general while serving in senior wartime political roles.

Role range: 1939-1945

Wartime Front Political Service

Continues senior political work with Soviet field armies during the Red Army's 1943 counteroffensives.

Role range: 1939-1945

Ukrainian Government Chairmanship

Becomes chairman of the Ukrainian republican government while retaining senior party responsibilities.

Role range: 1944-1947

Postwar Reconstruction Planning

Directs early planning for reconstruction of war-damaged Ukrainian cities, industry and agriculture.

Western Ukrainian Consolidation

Oversees restoration of Soviet administration and party control across western Ukraine after the war.

Ukrainian Famine Response

Faces severe agricultural shortages and famine conditions while serving in the Ukrainian leadership.

Temporary Loss of Ukrainian Party Post

Leaves the Ukrainian party first-secretary post while remaining head of the republican government.

Restored to Ukrainian Party Leadership

Returns as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party after a nine-month interruption.

Role range: 1947-1949

Collective Farm Consolidation in Ukraine

Supports consolidation of Ukrainian collective farms and continued postwar agricultural reconstruction.

Moscow Regional Committee Leadership

Resumes leadership of the Moscow regional party organization after leaving Ukraine.

Role range: 1949-1953

Return to Moscow Party Leadership

Returns to Moscow as a Central Committee secretary and senior Moscow party leader.

Role range: 1917-1991

First Secretary

Appointed First Secretary of All-Union Central Committee

Role range: 1917-1991

Moscow Agricultural Reorganization

Promotes agricultural reorganization around the capital while rebuilding his position in Stalin's inner circle.

Agro-Town Proposal

Promotes large planned agricultural settlements before retreating after the proposal draws criticism from Stalin.

Nineteenth Party Congress

Attends the Nineteenth Party Congress and remains among the senior figures of the enlarged party Presidium.

Plot

9 Russian & 6 Jewish doctors confess to the murder of Andrei Zhdanov

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Stalin Death Leadership Transition

Enters the collective leadership struggle that follows Joseph Stalin's death.

Party Secretariat Appointment

Becomes a secretary of the Communist Party Secretariat following Stalin's death.

Role range: 1917-1991

Secretary

Appointed Secretary of the Party Secretariat, 1 of 5

Role range: 1917-1991

Arrest of Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria

Has Beria arrested for allegedly staging a coup

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Arrest of Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria

Supports the leadership coalition that arrests Lavrenti Beria and removes him from the post-Stalin power struggle.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Coup

Has Beria arrested for allegedly staging a coup

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Campaign against Beria Network

Supports removal of officials associated with Beria as the new leadership restructures the security apparatus.

Role range: 1953-1964

First Secretary of CPSU

Is elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

First Secretary

Appointed First Secretary of the CPSU

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Execution of Lavrenti Beria

Beria is executed after being removed from power and tried by the Soviet leadership.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Execution

Has Beria executed

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Crimea Transfer Approved

The Soviet Presidium approves transfer of Crimea from the Russian republic to the Ukrainian republic during his leadership.

Role range: 1953-1964

Reform of Agriculture

Launches his "Virgin & Idle Lands" programme to increase sown areas

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Virgin Lands Campaign Launched

Launches the Virgin Lands campaign to expand grain cultivation in Kazakhstan and other eastern regions.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

First Visit to People's Republic of China

Visits Beijing and reaches agreements expanding Soviet economic assistance to China.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Trade Agreement at Beijing

Khruschev visits China & concludes a favourable trade agreement to the Chinese

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Agreement on Withdraw Russian troops for Austrian neutrality

Russia sells a shipment of arms to Guatemala. Khruschev agrees to withdraw Russian troops for Austrian neutrality

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Armament

Russia sells a shipment of arms to Guatemala

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964

Neutrality

Khruschev agrees to withdraw Russian troops for Austrian neutrality

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1953-1964