Khrushchev’s secret speech (February 25, 1956), in Russian history, denunciation of the deceased Soviet leader Joseph Stalin made by Nikita Khrushchev to a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was the nucleu
After the death of Joseph Stalin on 5th March 1953, the USSR finally achieved the kind of collective leadership which its people had always been entitled to expect. Since Lenin, the Soviet state’s totalitarian control had created terror in the population, but over time a worse fear and mistr...
Once a loyal Stalinist, Khrushchev gave a long speech in February 1956 that criticized Stalin for arresting and deporting opponents, for elevating himself above the party and for incompetent wartime leadership, among other things. This withering, albeit incomplete, indictment of Stalin was supposed ...
The most basic theme, subtending and permeating every speech and every idea in every speech, develops the glories of the Communist ideology.doi:doi:10.1080/01463376109385185Eldon E. BakerTodays Speech
But make public his speech wasn’t part of his plan, his speech was for the communist party, that’s why he didn’t mention his disapproval of the persecution of non-communist. His speech was named “Stalin’s second funeral” since it reconsidered everything Stalin supported, Khrushchev, ...
I, however, learned very quickly about the speech and about many additional details which confirmed rumors that had been circulating for months. Still, it was the official truth that had the greatest impact. To tell the truth, I was not quite ready to hear much of what they were saying, ...
The assembled comrades were about to listen to Khrushchev's Secret Speech, also called The Cult of the Individual Speech. Without announcing any agenda for the session, Khrushchev dove right into the subject and didn't take a breath for the next four hours. With eyes and mouths wide open, ...
6.Khrushchev Denounces the Crimes of Stalin(The Secret Speech)赫鲁晓夫谴责斯大林的罪过(秘密报告) 7.Mr.Khrushchev, moreover, was all bluff and bluster.尤其,赫鲁晓夫先生尽是在虚张声势。 8.The Analysis of Sino-treating Policy during the Forepart of Khrushchev Reign;赫鲁晓夫执政前期苏联对华政策分析...
Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin allowed Poland to move from Stalinist rule to a more moderate regime in a relatively nonviolent manner. Khrushchev's secret speech intensified the tensions between Communist reformers and Stalinists as well as the population's disaffection with the Stalinist regime,...
Khrushchev:“I doubt it. I want you to give your word that this speech of mine will be heard by the American people.” Nixon[shaking hands on it]: “By the same token, everything I say will be translated and heard all over the Soviet Union?” ...