* Khrushchev's downfall.

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.

Following Khrushchev's ascension to power, the Central Committee still played a leading role ; it overturned the Politburo's decision to remove Khrushchev from office in 1957.

Following Khrushchev's fall from power, Soviet leader Brezhnev brought Voroshilov out of retirement into a figurehead political post.

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

In a 2006 interview, Gagarin's friend Colonel Valentin Petrov stated that the cosmonaut never said such words, and that the quote originated from Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU about the state's anti-religion campaign, saying " Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

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.

Khrushchev's agricultural policy was a failure, and in 1963, the Soviet Union was forced to import food from abroad.

According to Kalugin, Stone followed a practice of having lunch with a Soviet press attaché from time to time, but broke off this luncheon relationship after his first visit to the Soviet Union in 1956 and after hearing Nikita Khrushchev's " Secret Speech " denouncing Stalin and the tyranny of his regime.

He was the first organisational secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) from Khrushchev's ouster to the death of Leonid Brezhnev.

Suslov cautiously demonstrated against Khrushchev's statement that the country had developed from the socialist state of development to the higher state of communist development.

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.

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.

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

In 1962 he was dismissed from his position as he disagreed with Khrushchev's plans to incorporate some lands in Southern Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan.

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

The term " Developed Socialism " stems from Khrushchev's promise of reaching communism in 20 years.

After the Prague Trials and later, Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech at the 20th Party Congress in the Soviet Union, Mapam moved away from some of their more radical left wing positions, and towards social democracy.

Also disillusioned by Soviet invasion of Hungary and Khrushchev's Secret Speech, he resigned from the Communist Party upon his return to Canada ( leading an exodus which included half the national executive ).

Khrushchev's treatment of his opponents marked a departure from earlier practice in Soviet politics ( as last seen in 1953 during the purge of Lavrenti Beria )-a development that was followed during later power struggles, such as Khrushchev's own deposition by Brezhnev in 1964 and the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991.

Slipyj was released by Nikita Khrushchev's administration from a Siberian Gulag in 1963, the year of the novel's publication, after political pressure from Pope John XXIII and United States President John F. Kennedy.

The Khrushchev Thaw ( or Khrushchev's Thaw ; or simply Ottepel ) refers to the period from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, when repression and censorship in the Soviet Union were reversed and millions of Soviet political prisoners were released from Gulag labor camps, due to Nikita Khrushchev's policies of de-Stalinization and peaceful coexistence with other nations.

As the decades progressed, the combined effects of the second Red Scare, McCarthyism, Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 Secret Speech denouncing the previous decades of Joseph Stalin's rule, and the adversities of the continued Cold War mentality, steadily weakened the Communist Party's internal structure and confidence.

However, Khrushchev's Secret Speech of 1956 opened up internal debate, even if members were unaware, in both the Polish and Hungarian Communist Parties.

Historian Robert V. Daniels holds that " neo-Stalinism prevailed politically for more than a quarter of a century after Stalin himself left the scene ," Following the Trotskyist comprehension of Stalin's policies as a deviation from the path of Marxism-Leninism, George Novack described Khrushchev's politics as guided by a " neo-Stalinist line ," its principle being that " the socialist forces can conquer all opposition even in the imperialist centers, not by the example of internal class power, but by the external power of Soviet example ," explaining that " Khrushchev ’ s innovations at the Twentieth Congress.

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.

After Khrushchev's consolidation of power, the number of Central Committee meetings decreased yet again, but it increased during his later rule, and together with the Politburo, the Central Committee voted to remove Khrushchev as First Secretary in 1964.

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

By 1964 Khrushchev's prestige had been damaged in a number of areas.

In 1964, Khrushchev's Kremlin colleagues managed to oust him, but allowed him a peaceful retirement.

In 1964, after Nikita Khrushchev's ouster, a plenum of the Central Committee ( CC ) forbade any single individual to hold the two most powerful posts of the country ( the office of the General Secretary and the premier ), and Kosygin was in charge of economic administration in his role as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

In 1964 opposition within the Politburo and the Central Committee led to Khrushchev's removal as First Secretary.

Khrushchev's formula of rapprochement-fusing ( sblizhenie-sliyanie ) was moderated slightly, however, when Leonid Brezhnev replaced Khrushchev as General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1964 ( a post he held until his death in 1982 ).

But many western historians were sceptical about Khrushchev's efforts to lay all the blame for past communist crimes on Stalin ... After Khrushchev's fall in 1964 memoirists were free to provide a more positive account of Stalin's role and to correct the simplistic and often incredible assertions of the secret speech ; for example, that Stalin had planned military operations using a globe of the earth!

At Khrushchev's door, therefore, can be placed the primary blame but also at fault are those who permitted themselves to be intimidated.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Khrushchev's phrase was also used as the title of Jan Šejna's book on communist Cold War strategies.

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.

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 ).