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Contemporary historians regard the beginning of de-Stalinization as a turning point in the history of the Soviet Union that began during the Khrushchev Thaw. The de-Stalinization process stalled during the Brezhnev period until the mid-1980s, and accelerated again with the policies of perestroika and glasnost under Mikhail Gorbachev. De ...
In Spain, there were major efforts that culminated in the Spanish Civil War after 1935. [8] A number of senior KPD (German Communist Party) leaders, in exile in the Soviet Union, were caught up in Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of 1937–1938 and executed. [9]
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.
After Stalin's death and the Khrushchev Thaw, a period of de-Stalinization began in the 1950s and 1960s, which caused the influence of Stalin's ideology to begin to wane in the USSR.
As part of de-Stalinisation, Khrushchev set about renaming the numerous towns, cities, factories, natural features, and kolkhozes around the country named in honor of Stalin and his aides, most notably Stalingrad, site of the great WWII battle, was renamed to Volgograd in 1961.
In that same month, annihilation of the opposition in Bulgaria began on the basis of continuing instructions by Soviet cadres. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] At a late September 1947 meeting of all communist parties in Szklarska Poręba , [ 78 ] Eastern Bloc communist parties were blamed for permitting even minor influence by non-communists in their respective ...
Pages in category "De-Stalinization" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The systematic attacks on the Russian Orthodox Church began as soon as the Bolsheviks took power in 1917. In the 1930s, Stalin intensified his war on organized religion. [ 38 ] Nearly all churches and monasteries were closed and tens of thousands of clergymen were imprisoned or executed.