2024Winner
Best Performance
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Nikita Khrushchev
Actor
Kalinovka, Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khomutovka Raion, Kursk Oblast, Russia]
April 15, 1894
Biography
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of Stalin's crimes and began de-Stalinization. He sponsored the early Soviet space program, and enactment of relatively liberal reforms in domestic policy. After some false starts, and a narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions. His proclivity toward recklessness led the Kremlin leadership to strip him of power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2003Winner
Best Performance
The Fog of War
2010Nominee
Best Performance
How to Win the TV Debate
Career Highlights
2022Highlight
Best Performance
Rat Pack
1995Highlight
Best Performance
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Video
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
The Fog of War
Incendiaries from the Celestial Empire