Summary Of Khrushchev'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 several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Stalin's political heirs fought for power after his death in 1953, a struggle in which Khrushchev, after several years, emerged triumphant. In 1956, at the Twentieth Party Congress,

The concept of Stalinism, being the ideologies and policies adopted by Stalin, including centralization, totalitarianism and communism, impacted, to an extent, on the soviet state until 1941. After competing with prominent Bolshevik party members Stalin emerged as the sole leader of the party in 1929. From this moment, Stalinism pervaded every level of society. Despite the hindrance caused by the bureaucracy, the impact of Stalinism was achieved through the implementation of collectivization and the 5-year plans, Stalin’s Political domination and Cultural influence, including the ‘Cult of the Personality’. This therefore depicts the influence of Stalinism over the Soviet State in the period up to 1941.

November, 7, 1941, The anniversary of the October Revolution, Joseph Stalin is the Supreme Dictator of Soviet Russia. The germans have captured large portions of Russia and are marching on stalingrad. In an attempt to inspire his Red Army Stalin gives a speech to the people of Russia. The speech that was never given a name, was preformed atop of Lenin's Mousoleum an served as a battle cry to the people of russia. In his speech Stalin used Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to inspire the people of Russia.

In his speech to the nation after the death of renowned Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Dwight David Eisenhower elucidates a chance for a cease of hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union. Eisenhower supports his elucidation with appeals to pathos through the preemptive utilization of parallelism, pronoun shifts, allusions, repetition, and juxtaposition in an effort to communicate the chance of opportunity to settle the differences with the Soviet Union before another conflict on a global scale occurs.

Kennedy reports to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of the situation by phone, and also phones former Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower to give them a brief explanation of the situation.

I attended the Constitution Day assembly on September 15, 2016. I receive a large amount of information from Cezar E. McKnight’s lecture. Honestly, I ignorant to several laws before I heard Mr. McKnight’s speech. This assembly was very informative and it is one of the most relevant assemblies I have experience since my matriculation at Claflin.

John Lewis Gaddis offers a different opinion of the one responsible for the Cold War. He believes that Stalin’s authoritarian vision was a minor issue; the big issue

speech to project an image of strength to the Soviet Union. When Eisenhower threatens, “Should an

From Stalin’s Cult of Personality to Khrushchev’s period of De-Stalinization, the nation of the Soviet Union was in endless disarray of what to regard as true in the sense of a socialist direction. The short story, This is Moscow Speaking, written by Yuli Daniel (Nikolai Arzhak) represents the ideology that the citizens of the USSR were constantly living in fear of the alternations of their nation’s political policies. Even more, the novella gives an explanation for the people’s desire to conform to the principles around them.

The Cold War was tense period for the world. The superpowers of the world, Russia and the United States were both capable of causing world destruction through nuclear weapons. The Americans were tired and just wanted to the tensions to ease. USSR and The United States competed over various things to show superiority, including the space race and especially the massive arms buildup. President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev both had promises that they had made to the nation. Khrushchev was close to losing popularity in Russia, the Russians believed that he was not doing enough for the country as a leader. Kennedy’s statements bragging about “U.S. nuclear superiority” (Donaldson 118), made Khrushchev and the Soviet look bad.

Paul Du Quenoy is a prolific historian with a plethora of works including books, book collaborations, articles, and review essays on topics spanning a wide swath of Russian history. He has worked in multiple educational establishments, and currently gives lectures on history at the American university of Beirut. This source is an incredible trove of information on the intricacies of the opinions surrounding an overarching topic in Khrushchev's downfall: his foreign policy initiatives and army management. This corroborates the topic of the industrial-military complex in the work Nikita Khrushchev, as well as offer direct references to a report made just for the sake of Khrushchev's dismissal that lists in detail exactly why Khrushchev's foreign

In conclusion, Kennedy successfully persuaded his audience—American citizens, Soviet’s citizens and some small countries’ citizens—to fulfill their responsibility to take action for liberty and peace by efficient employments of specific diction, parallel structure and metaphor. Undeniably, the current world-wide peace is mostly contributed by President Kennedy’s great effort. Thus, this inaugural address not only makes us deeply feel President Kennedy’s strong responsibility for America, but also lays foundation for world

Can we really believe the notes inserted into this text, describing the audience’s reaction to the secret speech? Could there truly have been applause, laughter and support for Khrushchev’s speech? After all the thing that made Khrsuchev’s speech so shocking to the Soviet system was not just that he outlined the evils of Stalinism, it’s that he denounced them. Communism before Stalin’s death had no issue with the deaths of millions; they were seen as a means to a glorious, good end, and were therefore just. Khrushchev’s secret speech shocked the crowd because it didn’t praise Stalin’s tactics and instead condemned them, showing that the party’s pope, the embodiment of scientific infallible communism, was wrong. There are accounts of party members

The question of this investigation is: “To what extent was Stalin’s utilization of the NKVD pivotal in his ability to establish and consolidate power in Russia?” The time frame in focus will be 1934-1941, the years during which Joseph Stalin was attempting to establish and consolidate power in Russia. The NKVD, transformed into all-union security force in 1934 by Stalin, is an abbreviation for the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs.

This paper will discuss how Stalin’s background helped build the qualities of a ruthless leader and how he displayed them