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27/03/1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier

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Khrushchev Soviet Elections 1958

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Elections In The Ussr (1958)

Nikita Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the SSSR, for supporting the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. In 1964, he was removed from power, and replaced by Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin.
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