Nationalkommunist Chruščev
Journal: osteuropa
Year: 2023

Nikita Khrushchev had risen to prominence in the Stalin era and held high political office in the 1930s, before becoming general secretary of the CPSU himself after Stalin’s death. From 1938 to 1949, he stood at the helm of the Ukrainian Communist Party. Just as he had supported the show trials in Moscow, he led the fight against “Ukrainian nationalists” in Kyiv. But when it came to territorial issues, he used ethnic arguments to advocate the “unification of all Ukrainians” in the Ukrainian Sovi