Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (In Russian: Серrей Никитич Хрущёв), son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, now resides in the United States where he is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Premier of the Soviet Union is the commonly used English term for the offices of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR (Председатель Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 17 1894 – September 11 1971 served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 following The United States of America —commonly referred to as the History The Watson Institute was founded in 1981 as the Center for Foreign Policy Development by Thomas J Brown University is a highly esteemed private University located in Providence, Rhode Island and is a member of the Ivy League.
Dr. Khrushchev holds several advanced engineering degrees. From the Ukrainian Academy of Science, he earned his Soviet doctoral degree, and he earned a Ph. D. from the Moscow Technical University. In addition, he earned an M. A. degree with distinction from the Moscow Electric Power Institute. He also holds an "occasional" professorship at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, meaning he is not a full-time professor (though he was for some time), but does teach there fairly often. The Naval War College (NWC is an education and research institution of the United States Navy that specializes in developing ideas for Naval warfare and passing them Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about 30 miles (48 km south of Providence
Prior to emigrating from the Soviet Union, Dr. "Emigrant" redirects here For the Butterflies, see Catopsilia. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Khrushchev worked in various high-level engineering positions. Engineering is the Discipline and Profession of applying technical and scientific Knowledge and From 1968 to 1991, he served at the Control Computer Institute in Moscow, where he rose from section head to first deputy director in charge of research. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Managing director is the term used for the Chief executive of many limited companies in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and some other English Research is defined as Human activity based on Intellectual application in the investigation of Matter. From the years 1958 to 1968, Dr. Khrushchev worked as an engineer, then later as a deputy section head in charge of guidance systems for missile and space design. An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of Engineering. A guidance system is a device or group of devices used to navigate a Ship, Aircraft, Missile, Rocket, Satellite, or other A missile (see also pronunciation differences) is a self-propelled explosive Projectile used as a weapon towards a target Space is the extent within which Matter is physically extended and objects and Events have positions relative to one another Design is used both as a Noun and a Verb. The term is often tied to the various Applied arts and Engineering (See design disciplines In this capacity, he worked on cruise missiles for submarine craft, military and research spacecraft, moon vehicles, and the "Proton" space booster. A cruise missile is a guided Missile that carries an explosive payload and uses a lifting wing and a propulsion system usually a Jet engine, to allow A submarine is a Watercraft that can operate independently below water as distinct from a Submersible that has only limited underwater capability A military is an Organization authorized by its Nation to use force usually including use of Weapons in defending its Country (or by attacking A spacecraft is a Vehicle or machine designed for Spaceflight. Vehicles, derived from the Latin word vehiculum, are non-living Means of transport. The Proton rocket In Spaceflight, a launch vehicle or carrier rocket is a Rocket used to carry a payload from the Earth's surface into Outer space.
He often speaks to American audiences to share his memories of the "other" side of the Cold War. Brooklyn Book Festival crowd by David Shankbonejpg|thumb|An audience at the Brooklyn Book Festival in New York City. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the
Family
On July 12, 1999, he and his wife, Valentina, became naturalized citizens of the United States. Events 1191 - Saladin 's garrison surrenders ending the two-year Siege of Acre. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Naturalization is the acquisition of Citizenship or Nationality by somebody who was not a citizen or national of that country when he or she was born Sergei's son, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, by a prior marriage, a Russian journalist, died on February 22, 2007, aged 47, from a stroke. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (b 1959 &mdash d February 23[[ 007]] was a Russian journalist whose grandfather and namesake Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
Bibliography
- Sergei Khrushchev, Khrushchev on Khrushchev – An Inside Account of the Man and His Era, by His Son, Sergei Khrushchev, edited and translated by William Taubman, Little, Brown, and Company, 1990, ISBN 0-316-49194-2
- Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, hardcover: ISBN 0-271-01927-1, softcover: ISBN 0-271-02170-5
- Sergei Khrushchev, Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, hardcover: ISBN 0-271-02861-0
External links
- Critical Review evaluations of Professor Khrushchev
- Professor Khrushchev's page and biographical sketch at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies
- Photographs from exhibit at the Brown University Library - Khrushchev and Khrushchev: from the Kremlin to Brown University: Sergei Khrushchev
- Transcript of a CNN interview with Dr. Sergei Khrushchev
- Biographical sketch on Dr. Khrushchev at Premiere Speakers Bureau
- Interview with Dr. Khrushchev in conjunction with the CNN series Cold War
- Webcast from the National Public Radio of December 2001 appearance of Dr. Khrushchev at the National Press Club
- Page on Dr. Khrushchev at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with Dr. Khrushchev at Salon.com
- Transcript of a October 1997 discussion on the Cuban Missile Crisis on the PBS program Newshour, in which Dr. Khrushchev was one of the speakers
- Review of Dr. Khrushchev's book Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower in the Fall 2001 issue of the journal Demokratizatsiya
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