Marcela Gonzalez
January 25, 2013
Period 6
Nikita Khrushchev As the Soviet leader during a great part of the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev sure left an imprint on world politics and history as we know it. Nikita Khrushchev was born to Sergei Khrushchev and Ksenia Khrushchev on April 15, 1894 in the peasant village of Kalinovka, Russia. Money was always short and his family did whatever they could to get by. When he was young, he worked as a herdsboy and only attended school for four years. Part of his schooling was in the village’s parochial school and the other part was spent in Kalinovka’s state school. His teacher, Lydia Shevchenko, told him to continue studying and to attend school, but his family’s economic state could not support it.
In 1908 his father moved to Yuzovka to work as a miner and Nikita followed, fourteen at the time. At fifteen he became a mechanic’s apprentice. After his apprenticeship ended, a factory hired him. That job was lost because he collected money to help the families of victims of the Lena Goldfields Massacre. Later he was hired to fix underground equipment for a mine in Rutchenkovo.
In 1914, World War I he did not have to join since he was a skilled metal worker. That same year he married Yefrosinia Pisareva. Later on the couple had a daughter named Yulia in 1915. They also had a son named Leonid in 1917. In 1918 Khrushchev joined the Bolsheviks. It was a year where the Russian Civil War between the Bolsheviks and the White Army was escalating. In 1919 he was sent into the Red Army to take on the role of political commissar. He came under fire many times and in 1921, the civil war ended. He was demobilized the sent to be the commissar of a labor brigade in Donbas. The conditions there were harsh and many men suffered.
The civil war had devastated millions and caused illness and famine. Khrushchev’s wife was a victim to