After the death of Iosif Stalin in 1953 a power struggle ensued among top-ranking members in the Soviet regime. In 1955 Nikita Khrushchev was named First Secretary of the Communist Party, effectively outmaneuvering Georgii Malenkov and Levrentii Beria after a period of “collective leadership”. At the 20th Party Congress in 1956 Khrushchev denounced Stalin’s totalitarian … Continue reading The New Line
