Son Of Soviet Leader Khrushchev Dies at Age 84 in Rhode Island, According to Pravda

Son Of Soviet Leader Khrushchev Dies at Age 84 in Rhode Island, According to Pravda

Pravda, the Russian newspaper, is reporting that Sergei Khrushchev — the son of the late Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev — has died in Rhode Island.

Nikita Khrushchev led the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin and during the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958 to 1964. 

Sergei Khrushchev was a noted scientist, academic and served as a senior fellow at Brown University.

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In July of 1999, the Washington Post reported that the younger Khruschev became a United States citizen in a ceremony Providence, “`I'm feeling like a newborn. It's the beginning of a new life,’’ the 64-year-old Sergei Khrushchev said Monday after taking the oath of citizenship inside a Roman Catholic school auditorium.

At his side was his wife, Valentina Golenko, who also became an American. The pair became citizens nearly 40 years after the famous Kitchen Debate between former Soviet leader Khrushchev and then-Vice President Richard Nixon in Moscow. `In another seven years, we will be on the same level as America,'' Khrushchev told Nixon then. `When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you’.’’

According to Sergei Khrushchev bio:

As a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, Dr. Sergei Khrushchev focuses his research on the former Soviet Union's transition from a centralized to a decentralized society, as well as its transformation from a central to a market economy and its international security during this transition.

One of his points of interest is the creation of a criminal society in Russia as a consequence of the mistakes in the early stages of market reformation. He is also interested in the history of the Cold War and the turning points in relations between the US and the Soviet Union in the Khrushchev, Eisenhower, and Kennedy periods. Another focus of Dr. Khrushchev's interests is the history of Soviet missiles and space development, in which he played an active role, from 1958-1968.

Dr. Sergei Khrushchev has been a Senior Fellow since 1996 and a Senior Visiting Scholar from 1991-1996 at the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies. In 1990, he was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 1968-1991, he served at the Control Computer Institute in Moscow, rising from Section Head to First Deputy Director in charge of research. From 1958-1968, he was an engineer, then Deputy Section head in charge of guidance systems for missile and space design.

In 1958-1968, Dr. Khrushchev participated in the Soviet missile and space program, including work on cruise missiles for submarines, military and research spacecraft, moon vehicles, and the "Proton," the world's largest space booster.