Brandt was outspoken against the Soviet repression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and against Nikita Khrushchev's 1958 proposal that Berlin receive the status of a " free city ".

In a election speech to the Supreme Soviet in March 1958, Suslov refused to recognise the ideological significance of Khrushchev's reform, preferring instead to focus on the reform's practical benefits in improving productivity.

* Khrushchev's Nuclear Promise to Beijing During the 1958 Crisis

* Following Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's expulsion in 1964, Sino-Soviet relations devolved into open hostility.

After the Sino-Soviet split, it was reported that he agreed with the criticisms made by Mao Zedong of the supposed " revisionism " of Khrushchev's policies.

Zhivkov survived the Sino-Soviet split, Khrushchev's fall in late 1964, an attempted Stalinist-Maoist coup d ’ état in 1965, his daughter Lyudmila Zhivkova's death in 1981, Brezhnev's death in 1982, and Mikhail Gorbachev's post-1985 reforms.

During the Sino-Soviet split, the governments of the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong and the People's Republic of Albania under Enver Hoxha proclaimed themselves to be taking an anti-revisionist line and denounced Khrushchev's policies in the Soviet Union.

Following the Sino-Soviet split of the late 1950s and the Soviet-Albanian split in 1961, Romania initially gave full support to the Khrushchev's stance, but maintained exceptionally good relations with both the People's Republic of China and Communist Albania.

The tensions were able to thaw because of Khrushchev's de-Stalinization of the USSR and peaceful co-existence theory and also because of US President Eisenhower's cautious attitude and peace attempts.

Although, direct communication between Khrushchev and the US president John Kennedy helped to end the crisis, Khrushchev's political image, in the West, was damaged.

No doubt, there was still a lot in the Draft Program -- and in Khrushchev's speech -- which left many points obscure.

No wonder Khrushchev's first message to President Kennedy was a wistful desire for the return of the `` good old days '' of Roosevelt.

Together with Malenkov's and Khrushchev's ascension of power, another figure, Lavrentiy Beria was also contending for power.

By August 1954 Malenkov's role as de facto head of government was over ; Nikolai Bulganin began signing Council of Ministers decrees ( a right beholden to the Chairman ) and the Presidium gave in to Khrushchev's wishes to replace Malenkov.

The anti-Khrushchev minority in the Presidium was augmented by those opposed to Khrushchev's proposals to decentralize authority over industry, which struck at the heart of Malenkov's power base.

Under Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's successor, aid was reduced and Albania was encouraged to adopt Khrushchev's specialization policy.

During World War II, the Church was allowed a revival as a patriotic organization, and thousands of parishes were reactivated until a further round of suppression during Khrushchev's rule.

The harshness with which Soviet affairs were conducted during Stalin's rule was subsequently repudiated by his successors in the Communist Party leadership, most notably by Nikita Khrushchev's repudiation of Stalinism in February 1956.

In the 1950s and 1960s, much soil was lost when vast tracts of Kazakhstan's prairies were plowed under as part of Khrushchev's Virgin Lands agricultural project.

To satisfy Khrushchev's demands, the orbital canine flight was expedited for the November launch.

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

In 1963, the Chinese Communist Party began to openly denounce the Soviet Union, publishing a series of nine polemics against its Marxist revisionism, with one of them being titled On Khrushchev's Phoney Communism and Historical Lessons for the World, in which Mao charged that Khrushchev was not only a revisionist but also increased the danger of capitalist restoration.

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

However, after Stalin's death in 1953 Molotov was staunchly opposed to Khrushchev's de-Stalinisation policy.

Since Molotov was the most senior of Stalin's collaborators still alive and had played a leading role in the purges, it became obvious that Khrushchev's examination of the past would probably result in Molotov's fall from power.

It was also referred to as Kuz ' kina Mat ' (, Kuzka's mother ), potentially referring to Nikita Khrushchev's promise to show the United States a " Kuz ' kina Mat '" at the 1960 United Nations General Assembly.

As Orwell himself documented, a great deal of evidence was reliably knowable even before 1939, but Hobsbawm pleads that much of it was not reliably knowable until Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956.

Of more importance was Nikita Khrushchev's " Secret Speech " at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in which he denounced Stalin.

Connected with this decentralization was Khrushchev's decision in 1962 to recast party organizations along economic, rather than administrative, lines.

Symptomatic of the country's economic difficulties was the abandonment in 1963 of Khrushchev's special seven-year economic plan ( 1959 – 65 ) two years short of its completion.

The group rejected both Khrushchev's liberalisation of Soviet society and his denunciation of Joseph Stalin.

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.

They rejected Nikita Khrushchev's policies, which they regarded as revisionist, and followed a Marxist-Leninist course.

The evident contradiction between the rosy picture of Russia's progress painted by the Communist party's program and the enormous dangers for all humanity posed by Premier Khrushchev's Berlin policy has already led to speculation abroad that the program may be severely altered.

One cannot but wonder whether these doubts about the success of Khrushchev's agricultural policy have not at least something to do with one of the big surprises provided by this Congress -- the obsessive harping on the crimes and misdeeds of the `` anti-party group '' -- Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich and others -- including the eighty-year-old Marshal Voroshilov.

Some called for a maximum of two term-periods in each party body, including the Central Committee, others supported Nikita Khrushchev's policy of compulsory turnover rules, which had been ended by the Brezhnev leadership.

However, some documentary evidence of orders given by Stalin contradicts these accounts, leading some historians to speculate that Khrushchev's account is inaccurate.

John F. Kennedy capitalized on this situation by emphasizing the Bomber gap and the Missile Gap, areas in which the Soviets were ( inaccurately ) perceived as leading the United States, while heated Soviet rhetoric, including Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's famous threat that " We will bury you!

They were also moved by the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's dismissal of Stalinism.

This, Faulkner believed, had been brought about by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's denouncement of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union's violent crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

According to Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 speech, " On the Personality Cult and its Consequences ," and more recent findings, a great number of accusations, notably those presented at the Moscow show trials, were based on forced confessions, often obtained by torture, and on loose interpretations of Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code, which dealt with counter-revolutionary crimes.

The reintroduction of this policy can be explained by Khrushchev's promise of communism in 20 years ; the unification of Soviet nationalities would take place, according to Vladimir Lenin, when the Soviet Union reached the final stage of communism, also the final stage of human development.

Immediately after Khrushchev's ouster, a " collective leadership " had been formed with Brezhnev as First Secretary, Alexei Kosygin as head of government and Anastas Mikoyan ( replaced in 1965 by Nikolai Podgorny ) as head of state.

However, by the late 1950s, Suslov had risen to become the leader of the hardline opposition to Nikita Khrushchev's revisionist leadership.

Khrushchev's proposal to expand cooperative ownership ran contrary to the Marxist theory as interpreted by Stalin.

He saw Khrushchev's view as flawed, and countered that his view had not been approved by the Party.

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.

By 1957, however, Bulganin had come to share the doubts held about Khrushchev's reformist policies by the conservative group ( the so-called " Anti-Party Group ") led by Vyacheslav Molotov.

In 1957 Mikoyan refused to back an attempt by Malenkov and Molotov to remove Khrushchev from power ; he thus secured his position as one of Khrushchev's closest allies.

The reindeer collective established in Nikita Khrushchev's day had been severely impacted by acid rain from the nickel smelters at Norilsk.

Shulman was dissatisfied by the Communist Party USA's turn away from Stalinism following Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech in 1956.