This leader started a foreign policy of peaceful coexistence and a domestic period known as his "thaw.
This leader launched a campaign to use the steppe to cultivate grain which was known as the Virgin Lands project. This man worked to have Lavrenty Beria executed and took power from Georgy Malenkov. This leader decried the use of secret police, poor economic policies, and a cult of personality in his Secret Speech. In another speech, this man told the West, "We will bury you." He allegedly banged his shoe on a desk during a UN meeting. This leader started a foreign policy of peaceful coexistence and a domestic period known as his "thaw." For 10 points, name this Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis who oversaw a period of de-Stalinization.
This leader launched a campaign to use the steppe to cultivate grain which was known as the Virgin Lands project.
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev