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De-Stalinization (Russian: десталинизация, romanized: destalinizatsiya) comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power, [1] and his 1956 secret speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its ...
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The De-Stalinization in Romania was a process of removing Stalinist policies and Stalin's cult of personality between 1956 and 1965. Implemented by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej , it included the marginalization of Stalinists such as Ana Pauker and a large-scale amnesty of thousands of political prisoners .
The Khrushchev Thaw (Russian: хрущёвская о́ттепель, romanized: khrushchovskaya ottepel, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfskəjə ˈotʲːɪpʲɪlʲ] or simply ottepel) [1] is the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s when repression and censorship in the Soviet Union were relaxed due to Nikita Khrushchev's policies of de-Stalinization [2] and peaceful coexistence with other nations.
In spite of the communist party's restriction of Georgian nationalism, Khrushchev's policy of de-Stalinization was, paradoxically, a huge and extreme blow to Georgian national pride. [6] The younger generation of Georgians was proud to consider him being a Georgian that ruled over great Russia, and, as believed widely, dominated the world. [ 6 ]
Some relaxation of Soviet control occurred after Stalin's death in 1953 and the subsequent de-stalinization. [55] State brutality and repression waned in the Bloc. [ 21 ] The Red Army withdrew from the Balkans, though not from East Germany and countries needed for transit purposes. [ 55 ]
[27] Stalin dismissed this as excessive and contributing to a cult of personality he thought might later be used against him by the same people who praised him excessively, one of those being Khrushchev—a prominent user of the term during Stalin's life who was later responsible for de-Stalinization and the beginning of the Khrushchev Thaw era ...
De-Stalinization and Soviet Patriotism: Ukrainian Reactions to East European Unrest in 1956. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 13 (4), 799–829. Ideology and propaganda