Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from the RSFSR to Ukraine not as some unique act about which he was particularly concerned but as part of a far larger reorganization of the administrative-territorial divisions of the USSR, Maksim Artemyev says. Seen from this perspective, his decision could easily have been reversed by later Soviet leaders.
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Paul Goble: Khrushchev’s transfer of Crimea to Ukraine
(FILES) People hold plackards reading "Crimea is Ukraine" during a rally at the Independence square in central Kyiv on March 1, 2014.
