The confrontation ended on October 28, 1962, when President John F. Kennedy and United Nations Secretary-General U Thant reached a public and secret agreement with Khrushchev.

Both the cultural and the political thaws were effectively ended with the removal of Khrushchev as Soviet leader in October 1964, and the installment of Leonid Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1964.

Khrushchev's prestige was severely damaged as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis which ended in what many in the party saw as a humiliating climbdown by Khrushchev.

The " thaw " era ended quickly, when in 1962, Khrushchev attended the public Manezh exhibition at which several nonconformist artists were exhibiting.

* Shortly after the Four Power Summit in Paris was opened by France's President DeGaulle at, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev demanded the right to speak, and then delivered an angry tirade, which ended with a cancellation of the invitation for President Eisenhower to visit the U. S. S. R. beginning June 10.

The summit ended at, and Khrushchev did not show up for further meetings.

A new version of the film was published in 1938, including a longer sequence to reflect Stalin's " achievements " at the end of the film and leaving out footage with " enemies " of that time, including figures like Nikolai Yezhov, Nikita Khrushchev, Georgi Dimitrov and others.

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

On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.

Although Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin's personality cult, information about the true proportions of his atrocities was still suppressed.

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.

Beria and Khrushchev were in a position to add the tasteless warfarin to Stalin's wine the evening before.

Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin visited Tito in Belgrade in 1955 and apologized for wrongdoings by Stalin's administration.

Stalin's death on 5 March 1953 prompted major changes in the Soviet leadership and in March 1953, Voroshilov was approved as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ( i. e., the head of state ) with Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.

Voroshilov, Malenkov, and Khrushchev brought about 26 June 1953 arrest of Lavrenty Beria after Stalin's death.

They arrived at Stalin's dacha at Kuntsevo at 3am on March 2 after being called by Khrushchev and Bulganin.

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.

After Stalin's death in 1953, his successor Nikita Khrushchev repudiated his policies, condemned Stalin's cult of personality in his Secret Speech to the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956, and instituted destalinisation and relative liberalisation ( within the same political framework ).

Mao Zedong | Mao, Stalin and Ulbricht, at Stalin's 70th birthday celebration in Moscow, December 1949 Ulbricht ( right ) with Nikita Khrushchev in 1963

He defended his policies and the legacy of Stalin until his death in 1986, and harshly criticized Stalin's successors, especially Nikita Khrushchev.

Khrushchev attacked Stalin, both over the purges of the 1930s and the defeats of the early years of World War II, which he blamed on Stalin's over-trusting attitude to Hitler and the purges of the Red Army.

However, after the 22nd Party Congress in 1961, during which Khrushchev carried out his de-Stalinisation campaign, including the removal of Stalin's body from Lenin's Mausoleum, Molotov ( along with Lazar Kaganovich ) was removed from all positions and expelled from the Communist Party.

This split developed after Stalin's death in 1953 when new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced him.

The 4th Special Department was disbanded in 1953 when, shortly after Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev had Beria arrested for espionage and executed.

Another Plan to improve industry was carried out in 1956 by Nikita Khrushchev, following Stalin's death in 1953.

This was in part thanks to Tupolev's close rapport with Nikita Khrushchev who had denounced Stalin's terror, a victim of which Tupolev had been.

At a speech " On the Personality Cult and its Consequences " to the closed session of the Twentieth Party Congress of the CPSU, 25 February 1956, Khrushchev shocked his listeners by denouncing Stalin's dictatorial rule and cult of personality.

Khrushchev also began reaching out to newly independent countries in Asia and Africa, which was in sharp contrast to Stalin's Europe-centered foreign policy.

In the speech, Khrushchev criticized actions taken by the regime of Joseph Stalin, particularly the purges of the military and the upper Party echelons, and the development of Stalin's personality cult, while maintaining support for the ideals of Communism by invoking Vladimir Lenin.

But one cannot escape the suspicion that all this non-stop harping on the misdeeds of the long liquidated `` anti-party '' group would be totally unnecessary if there were not, inside the party, some secret but genuine opposition to Khrushchev on vital doctrinal grounds, on the actual methods to be employed in the `` transition to communism '' and, last but not least, on foreign policy.

Though President John F. Kennedy was primarily concerned with the crucial problems of Berlin and disarmament adviser McCloy's unexpected report from Khrushchev, his new enthusiasm and reliance on personal diplomacy involved him in other key problems of U.S. foreign policy last week.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

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.

* 1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe

This led to the rise of Nikita Khrushchev, who denounced Stalin and pursued a more liberal domestic and foreign policy, stressing peaceful competition with the West rather than overt hostility.

In defense policy, Khrushchev began cutting the military's budget, feeling that the Soviet nuclear arsenal was an adequate deterrent to outside aggression.

On the one hand, the politburo of the PCF claimed its loyalty to the Soviet Union ( it approved the military intervention in Hungary in 1956 ), and one the other hand, the general secretary Thorez was sceptical about the policy of Nikita Khrushchev ( his rapport about Joseph Stalin's crimes was kept silent by the PCF leaders ).

Meanwhile, Khrushchev broadened Moscow's policy to establish ties with India and other key neutral states.

Resultantly, contradicting Stalin, Khrushchev was advocating the idea of “ Peaceful Coexistence ”, between communist and capitalist nations — which directly challenged Mao ’ s “ lean-to-one-side ” foreign policy, adopted after the Chinese Civil War, when he feared direct Japanese or US military intervention, the circumstances that pragmatically required a PRC – Soviet alliance.

This policy decreased the total production of wheat and rye ; this was anticipated by Khrushchev, and the production of wheat and rye was moved to Soviet Central Asia as part of the Virgin Land Campaign.

" He also urged the administration to " assure a divergence of outlook and policy between the Russians and Chinese ," which could be accomplished by improving relations with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev who had wanted to distance himself from the Communist Chinese.

There were also deep-seated divergences in foreign and domestic policy between Suslov and Khrushchev.

The revisionist policy shift of Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the CPSU in February 1956, changed Bahro's views.

He backed Khrushchev and his de-Stalinization policy, and became First Deputy Premier under Khrushchev.

While Khrushchev was not hesitant to point out the flaws in Stalinist practice in regard to the purges of the army and Party and the management of the Great Patriotic War, he was very careful to avoid any criticism of Stalin ’ s industrialization policy or Communist Party ideology.

Khrushchev solidified the concept in Soviet foreign policy in 1956 at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Khrushchev was unable to win conservatives in the Presidium such as Molotov to his side until one of Beria's initiatives, his German policy, resulted in calamity for Soviet power.

Khrushchev reversed the regime's policy of cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church.

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.