Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894 - 1971), Soviet leader, first secretary of the Communist Party (1953 - 1964) and premier of the Soviet Union (1958 - 1964). He urged peaceful coexistence between his country and Western nations. Within the Soviet bloc, however, Khrushchevsent troops into Poland and Hungary in 1956 against persons who resisted the communist government. He also aided the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba and had Soviet military missiles installed there but removed them at the insistence of the United States. —SHSBC Binder 24 Approved Glossary