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The Anti-Stalin Campaign and International Communism: A Selection of Documents, a 1956 book (published by the Columbia University Press) containing the text of the speech as well as reactions to it from the communist parties of the United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy; Complete text of the speech (in Russian) in a contemporary pamphlet.
A bust of Stalin in the village of Chokh, Dagestan (42.319722, 47.031167). A bust of Stalin at a square in Derbent, Dagestan (42.054718, 48.310115). A bust of Stalin in the town of Dagestanskiye Ogni, Dagestan (until 2021). [17] Bust of Stalin near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum alongside those of Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. [18]
After Stalin died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. However the central figure in the immediate post-Stalin period was the former head of the state security apparatus, Lavrentiy Beria.
On 25 February 1956, at a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered a "secret speech" in which he criticized actions taken by the Stalin regime, particularly the purges of the military and the upper Party echelons, and the development of Stalin's cult of personality, while maintaining support for other ideals ...
The instances were: 1) the 2- to 3-year period between Vladimir Lenin's incapacitation and Joseph Stalin's leadership; 2) the three months following Stalin's death; [39] 3) the years between Nikita Khrushchev's fall and Leonid Brezhnev's consolidation of power; [23] and 4) the ailing Konstantin Chernenko's tenure as General Secretary.
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This is a select bibliography of English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the post-Stalinist era of Soviet history. A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included. The sections "General surveys" and "Biographies" contain books; other sections contain both books and journal articles.
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