Summary.
Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, Krushchev, one of his men before he died, took his place. Krushchev, in response to the bad name his country had after Stalins reign, attempted to remove all evidence of him. All statues of Stalin were destroyed and Stalin was put promoted as a bad leader.
Krushchev and De-Stalinization
- Led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.
- Served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
- Responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union
- On February 25, 1956, at the Twentieth Party Congress, he delivered the "Secret Speech"
- His domestic policies, aimed at bettering the lives of ordinary citizens, were often ineffective
- Denounces Stalins purges
- Some of Khrushchev's policies were seen as erratic, particularly by his emerging rivals, who quietly rose in strength and deposed him in October 1964
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