Russian Soviet Communist politician
secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964
at 20th Communist Party Congress, denounced Joseph Stalin 1956
premier of Soviet Union 1958-1964
engaged in "kitchen debate" with Richard Nixon at US Exhibition in Moscow 1959
at meeting of UN 1960, banged shoe on table to express anger at Philippine ambassador's suggestion that decolonization resolution proposed by Soviets should also apply to Soviet-bloc Eastern Europe
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