Ep 39: Nikita Khrushchev p1 - Under Stalin's Shadow

What's the only type of party you don't want to attend? A party purge. Communist boogeyman Nikita Khrushchev survived not only waves of bloody purges, but other historic free-for-alls such as the Russian Revolution, the Great Famine, the Great Terror and World War Two. So how did this meager, uneducated peasant manage to navigate his own course through the treacherous, shark-infested waters that is the Soviet bureaucracy to eventually become Stalin’s successor?