During the de-Stalinization of the Nikita Khrushchev era, a new trend developed, based on socialist legality, that stressed the need to protect the procedural and statutory rights of citizens, while still calling for obedience to the state.

His reign is sometimes known as the " Yezhovshchina " (, " the Yezhov era "), a term coined during the de-Stalinization campaign of the 1950s.

In 1955 Lázaro Cárdenas was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize, which was later renamed for Lenin as part of de-Stalinization.

While Kang remained a member of the Politburo, he had no concrete role and no power base, which led him to take on a series of diverse assignments and to align himself as closely as possible with Mao, who was devising his response to de-Stalinization and its effects within the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the de facto leader of the Prison faction, had supported intensified agricultural collectivization, pushed for Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu's trial and execution, and was a rigid Stalinist ; however, he resented some strains of Soviet influence ( which would become clear at the time of de-Stalinization when, as leader of Communist Romania, he was a determined opponent of Nikita Khrushchev ).

The March 1956 demonstrations ( also known as the 1956 Tbilisi riots or 9 March massacre ) in Soviet Georgia were a reaction to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy, which shocked the younger Georgians raised on Stalinist ideology and wounded their national feelings ( Stalin was a Georgian ).

Although the Soviets revised their attitudes under Nikita Khrushchev, during the process of de-Stalinization, and sought to normalize relations with the Yugoslavs, while obtaining influence in the Non-Aligned Movement, the answer they got was never enthusiastic, and the Soviet Union never gained a proper outlet to the Mediterranean Sea.

In 1956, he endorsed the " de-Stalinization " inaugurated by Nikita Khrushchev at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, as well as the reforms conceived by Soviet economist Evsei Liberman, suggesting a decentralization of decisions made within the planning leadership.

It was officially created after Lenin's death during the regime of Josef Stalin in the Soviet Union and continued to be the official ideology of the Soviet Communist Party after de-Stalinization.

These developments occurred as a result of the influence of the Chinese Army's involvement during the Korean War, as well as during the Sino-Soviet split when Kim Il-sung sided with Mao against Soviet de-Stalinization.

In 1954, during the period of de-Stalinization, Merkys was released from prison but not allowed to return to Lithuania.

The Soviet government cleared him of all charges in 1955, during the first wave of de-Stalinization.

Given momentum by these public renamings, the process of de-Stalinization peaked in 1961 during the 22nd Congress of the CPSU.

In this capacity, she sided with Khrushchev in de-Stalinization during the Khrushchev's Thaw, and secured the downfall of Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, and Lazar Kaganovich when they conspired to depose her patron.

Stalin and his regime have been condemned on numerous occasions, the most significant being the in 1956, when Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev denounced his legacy and initiated a process of de-Stalinization.

After Stalin's death and a short period of collective rule, new leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the cult of personality of Stalin and launched the policy of de-Stalinization.

Joseph Stalin's embalmed body shared a spot next to Lenin's, from the time of his death in 1953 until October 31, 1961, when Stalin was removed as part of de-Stalinization and Khrushchev's Thaw, and buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis outside the walls of the Kremlin.

After Stalin's death and later, after the beginning of de-Stalinization in USSR, the Communist authorities in Romania decided to use the good offices of the leaderships of the different religious cults in Romania, including those of religious minorities, in order to improve their image in the world and to improve the economic relations of Romania with the foreign countries.

Two climactic acts of de-Stalinization marked the meetings: first, on October 31, 1961, Stalin's body was moved from Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square to a location near the Kremlin wall ;

As part of the de-Stalinization push, many other places bearing Stalin's name were either renamed or reverted to their former names.

In spite of Stalin's heavy-handed suppression of Georgian nationalism, Khrushchev ’ s policy of de-Stalinization was, paradoxically, a blow to the Georgian national pride.

His body was preserved in Lenin's Mausoleum until 31 October 1961, when his body was removed from the mausoleum and buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis next to the Kremlin walls as part of the process of de-Stalinization.

In 1961, the name was changed from Stalingrad to Volgograd (" Volga City ") as part of Nikita Khrushchev's programme of de-Stalinization.

As part of Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization initiative, the city was renamed Dushanbe in 1961.

Following the de-Stalinization period of the 1950s, the book was published and printed to a greater extent.

On March 9, 1956, about a hundred Georgian students were killed when they demonstrated against Nikita Khrushchev's policy of de-Stalinization that was accompanied by general criticism of the whole Georgian people and culture.

The verdict was posthumously set aside at a hearing of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on August 20, 1955, undertaken as part of a de-Stalinization effort to review Stalin-era death sentences.

Lenin's body was to have been transferred to the Pantheon upon its completion but the project was cancelled in the aftermath of de-Stalinization.

The conservative hard-line Stalinist elite of the Soviet communist party was enraged by Khrushchev's speech in 1956, and rejected Khrushchev's de-Stalinization and liberalisation of Soviet society.

The former, he argued, was marked by the dissolution of the British Empire, the economic recovery of France, Germany and Japan following the destruction of the Second World War, the boom of world stock markets, and the process of de-Stalinization in the USSR and de-McCarthyizataion in the USA.

Albania became an ally of the Soviet Union, but this came to an end in 1956 over the advent of de-Stalinization.

By 1958 Albania stood with the People's Republic of China in opposing Moscow on issues of peaceful coexistence, de-Stalinization, and Yugoslavia's " separate road to socialism " through decentralization of economic life.

* 1956 – Soviet military suppresses mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.

Khrushchev opposed Stalinism and initiated de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, ending the personality cult of Stalin, purging Stalinists from the Communist Party, and increased the level of freedom of expression permitted in the country.

With the death of Stalin in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev gradually ascended to power in the Soviet Union and announced a radical policy of de-Stalinization of the Communist Party and the country, condemning Stalin for excesses and tyranny.

The policies of de-Stalinization were promoted as an attempt to restore the legacy of Lenin.

North Korea, Albania, and China were among the loudest opponents of de-Stalinization.

The seeds of the New Left were planted in the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union.

The process of de-Stalinization in Czechoslovakia had begun under Antonín Novotný in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but had progressed slower than in most other states of the Eastern Bloc.

** Soviet Armed Forces suppresses mass demonstrations in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.

China rejected de-Stalinization and in fact displayed large Stalin portraits at the May Day celebrations that year.

After the death of Stalinist Prime Minister Bolesław Bierut in 1956, a brief period of de-Stalinization began, raising popular hope for reform.

Gheorghiu-Dej and the leadership of the Romanian Workers ' Party ( Partidul Muncitoresc Român, PMR ) were fully braced to weather de-Stalinization.