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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev[b][c] (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor Joseph ...
For the next four hours, Khrushchev delivered "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" before stunned delegates. [9] Several people became ill during the tense report and had to be removed from the hall. [9] Khrushchev read from a prepared report, and no stenographic record of the closed session was kept. [10]
Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 "We will bury you" (Russian: «Мы вас похороним!», romanized: "My vas pokhoronim!") is a phrase that was used by Soviet First (formerly General) Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, the de facto ruler of the USSR, while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956.
The March 1956 demonstrations (also known as the 1956 Tbilisi riots or 9 March massacre) in the Georgian SSR were a series of protests against Nikita Khrushchev 's de-Stalinization policy, which shocked Georgian supporters of Stalinist ideology. The center of the protests was the republic's capital, Tbilisi, where spontaneous rallies to mark ...
Not everyone was ready to accept Khrushchev's new line. Communist Albanian leader Enver Hoxha, for instance, strongly condemned Khrushchev as "revisionist" and severed diplomatic relations. [3] The speech was also seen as a catalyst for the anti-Soviet uprisings in Poland and Hungary of 1956, and was seen as a "major stimulus" to the Sino ...
Khrushchev's 1956 speech was the strongest effort ever in the USSR to bring political change, [1] at that time, after several decades of fear of Stalin's rule, that took countless innocent lives. [19] Khrushchev's speech was published internationally within a few months, [1] and his initiatives to open and liberalize the USSR had surprised the ...
The Polish October (Polish: Polski październik), also known as the Polish thaw or Gomułka's thaw, also "small stabilization" (Polish: mała stabilizacja[2]) was a change in the politics of the Polish People's Republic that occurred in October 1956. Władysław Gomułka was appointed First Secretary of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party ...
Stalin's immediate legacy. 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 ...