Khrushchev's Secret Speech

gained 1,500 delegates and many invited visitors to assembled in Moscow in the Great Hall of Kremlin as to deliver a speech on the recently – deceased Joseph Stalin. In the next 4 hours, Khrushchev went on criticizing on every aspect of Stalin’s method of rule. The well-known speech entitled “On The Cult of Individual and its Consequences” become simply known as Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech”. Primary sources are used to allow the historian to have an insight on the context and the intention it’s trying

Gobbet 2- Khrusschev’s Secret Speech The Source is an extract of a speech given by Nikita Khrushchev at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Soviet Union on February 25th 1956. Khrushchev served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the world's early space program, and for

Khrushchev’s 1956 Secret Speech was one of the most important moments in Soviet history. It was the beginning of the permanent divided within the party between reformists and hardliners. This divide created a new type of informal political norm for both the Soviet System and the Soviet Leader- I will call this the ‘rollback effect.’ This rollback effect influenced every Soviet leader’s view on problems in Soviet society, and thus, their policy preferences. Furthermore, the remnants of the rollback

Russia both politically and socially and wanted to eliminate the mark Stalin had on Russia and its people. The step taken towards putting de-Stalinization in to practise was taken by Nikita Khrushchev, when he had given a secret speech to the Twentieth Party Congress. His speech consisted of the ‘personality cult ‘and its consequences, where he had spoke about the dictatorship of Stalin and how he had affected the country, the people were shocked by the words of Khrushchev, the man who had worked

over Russia. Khrushchev's Thaw was Khrushchev turning the Soviet Union into a more peaceful place. Khrushchev worked as First Secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union between 1953 and 1964 and also led the Soviet Union in the cold war. His speech, "The Cult of The Individual", was given on the 25th of February in 1952, three years after Joseph Stalin’s death, to a closed session of Communist party delegates along with guests and members of the press; however, this speech was not recorded

party by denouncing Stalin’s crimes in a "secret speech". Khrushchev revealed that Stalin had arbitrarily liquidated thousands of party members and military leaders and had established a cult of personality. With this speech Khrushchev not only distanced himself from Stalin, and Stalin’s close associates, Molotov and Malenkov, but also abjured the dictator’s policy of terror. As a result of the de-Stalinization campaign launched by the speech, the release of political prisoners, which had

to, after the terror of his predecessor Stalin which had dominated Soviet power since the mid-1920s, take a more sensitive approach to the challenges facing him. This was not least expressed in Khrushchev’s so called “secret speech” which he delivered at the 20th Party congress in February 1956. In his speech, he denounced the purges that had been carried out in order for Stalin to consolidate power and eliminate all possible opposition. Khrushchev emphasized that Stalins methods were immoral and went

Khrushchev's rise to power coincided with one of the darkest periods in Soviet history: the Great Terror. During the 1930s, Stalin began a series of bloody purges to consolidate his power. The terror spread throughout the Soviet Union, and Khrushchev was part of it, denouncing several fellow students and workers as "enemies of the people" and willingly taking part in the extermination of the Ukrainian intelligentsia. By the time Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Khrushchev had been

Dwight Eisenhower had managed to take definite and deliberate, though tentative and politically risky, steps towards relaxing tensions and slowing the arms race. These steps culminated in Khrushchev’s visit to the US in 1959, an invitation for Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union,

To what extent was the development of the post-Stalin thaw in superpower relations between 1953 and 1962 the result of Khrushchev’s policy of ‘Peaceful Coexistence’? The post Stalin thaw, which occurred in the period between 1953 and 62’, refers to the more conciliatory approach employed by both the USSR and the USA which resulted in greater toleration and a less ‘hard line’ foreign policy. The thaw was perhaps a direct result of Stalin's death as both sides saw an opportunity to ease tensions between