Secrets, secrets are no fun unless you share with everyone. The speech that everyone was talking about, yet nobody knew about, Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech“. To give a little bit of background, this speech was made behind closed doors, solely to the Communist Party’s Twentieth Congress, and there was no press from the Soviet side to […]
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Secrecy Then, Secrecy Now: Khrushchev’s Denunciation of Stalinism
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The Twentieth Party Congress (1956) served as a “watershed” moment in the political history of the Soviet Union (Freeze 416). It included many new faces in the delegation, as a means for Khrushchev to consolidate power, and avoided the contentious issue of Stalin’s legacy initially (Freeze 416). That changed with Khrushchev’s “bombshell,” “late-night” speech on … Continue reading Secrecy Then, Secrecy Now: Khrushchev’s Denunciation of Stalinism →
