Khrushchev obituary Struggles-

Krushev often took decisions without thinking

them through or checking with other party
officials which angered other comunist leaders
and led them to resent him at times. He was
also very indecisive, often acting irrationally
and off the top of his head. His forgein policy
caused the USSR to be humiliated on an
international stage particularly during the
cuban missile crisis of 1964 where he backed
down against Kennedy and when kennedy
refused to leave west berlin and kruschev was
forced to back down again. This caused many
party leaders to resent him.
His behaviour was often unstable as he was
erratic and often embarrassed his fellow party
members especially during one incident where
Nikita Krushchev was born in 1894 in
he hit his shoe on a desk during a UN meeting.
Kalinovka (Russia) and was the Soviet
His failures in agricultural policy came to a
President from 1958 to 1968. On February 8,
head with a disastrous harvest in 1963. In the
1956 he gave one of the most famous end, it was the Party that removed him from
speeches in Russian history where he office.
denounced Stalin and his cult of
personality, he also announced the process Overall judgement-
of de-stalinization. He was very much Although Khrushchev did end Stalin’s era of
regarded as a reformer and was at time terror and did bring Russia into the modern
considered an anachronism. world with his many economic and social
reforms, he ultimately was an anachronism as
Achievements- he wanted to completely turn around the
USSR’s policies , his foreign policy failures
During his reign, Russia launched sputnik,
and his indecisiveness largey embarrassed the
the first man-made object to go to space. It
USSR and led to his eventual demise.
marked the beginning of the space race
and it was evident that Kruschev had put
the USSR in the lead and portrayed the
USSR as an advanced nation. Krushchev
introduced many programmes to stop
corruption of party officials, including
limiting length of years serving in the
party to 16 years maximum. He also
decentralized the government allowing
local party officials and councils to have
more power thus making the USSR more
democratic in some aspects. He
established many ties with other
coumnusit countries most notebelay Mao's
china.