Photo of N.S. Khrushchev in a cornfield, 1943

The original press photo is in excellent condition. The full title is "V.V. Grachev, Chairman of the collective farm of the village of Kalinovka, Kursk region, shows Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev corn in the collective farm field." The size is 16.5*24 cm. The label and stamp of the APN agency are on the back. Guarantee of authenticity.

Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (April 3 [15], 1894[6], Kalinovka, Dmitrievsky District, Kursk Province, Russian Empire — September 11, 1971, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) was a Soviet party and statesman. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1953-1964). Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1958-1964). Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR (1956-1964). Hero of the Soviet Union (1964), three times Hero of Socialist Labor (1954, 1957, 1961), winner of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace among Nations" (1959) and the Taras Shevchenko National Prize (1964), recipient of seven Orders of Lenin (1935, 1944, 1948, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1964). Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Participant of the Great Patriotic War.

In 1953, after Stalin's death, he emerged victorious in the struggle for power, strengthening his authority as the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. On February 25, 1956, he addressed the twentieth Congress of the CPSU with a secret report "On the cult of Personality and its consequences," which initiated the process of de-Stalinization. The period of Khrushchev's rule is often referred to as the "thaw." Under his leadership, political prisoners were released and rehabilitation of victims of Stalinist repression began. Criminal penalties for abortions and being late for work were abolished, and the ban on changing jobs was lifted. The length of the working day has been significantly reduced and paid leave has been increased, government purchase prices for collective farm products have been tripled, and monetary reform has been carried out, which has made it possible to stabilize the country's economy for decades to come. A new law on universal pension provision has been adopted, active housing construction has been launched, and modernist architecture has been restored. The transport sector has been reformed, and the construction of new highways has begun. Steam locomotives have been discontinued on the railways (they have been replaced by diesel and electric locomotives). The Soviet Union has achieved great success in space exploration.

At the same time, Khrushchev's name is associated with the organization of the toughest anti-religious campaign in the post-war period, the shooting of workers in Novocherkassk, lawsuits with death sentences against currency traders and shop workers, whom Soviet propaganda called "robbers of socialist property," making erroneous decisions in agriculture (in particular, miscalculations during the development of virgin lands, the consolidation of villages), the suppression of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, the harassment of Boris Pasternak and the campaign against avant-garde artists. Khrushchev's decisions in foreign policy are ambiguously assessed. During his reign, tensions between the USSR and the United States increased (the Caribbean crisis). The policy of the Central Committee of the CPSU on de-Stalinization led to a break with the communist governments of Enver Hoxha in Albania and Mao Zedong in China. Nevertheless, China has received substantial assistance in developing its own nuclear weapons and technology for their production has been transferred. In October 1964, he was dismissed from power and retired for "subjectivism" and "voluntarism."