One of Nikita Khrushchev's most enthusiastic eulogizers, the U.S.S.R.'s daily Izvestia, enterprisingly interviewed Red-prone Comedian Charlie Chaplin at his Swiss villa, where he has been in self-exile since 1952.

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.

After Nikita Khrushchev's " secret speech " to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, which revealed that the Soviet party leadership had long been aware of Stalin's crimes, Thompson ( with John Saville and others ) started a dissident publication inside the CP, called The Reasoner.

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

Despite some initial expressions of enthusiasm, Hoxha and Shehu mistrusted Nikita Khrushchev's programs of " peaceful coexistence " and " different roads to socialism " because they appeared to pose the threat that Yugoslavia might again try to take control of Albania.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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 ".

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

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

The legal and historical narrative ends in 1956, the time of Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech at the 20th Party Congress of 1956 denouncing Stalin's personality cult, his autocratic power, and the surveillance that pervaded the Stalin era.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1961, the reconstruction of the upper castle and a high tower construction were completed ; however, the works came to a halt as a result of Nikita Khrushchev's speech of December 21, 1960.

From an Anti-Revisionist point of view, Enver Hoxha in Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism explains Eurocommunism as the result of Nikita Khrushchev's policy of peaceful coexistence.

In February, Nikita Khrushchev's delivers his famous speech " On the Personality Cult and its Consequences ".

The Maoists claim that this happened after Nikita Khrushchev's seizure of power in 1956, while Cliff claims it happened in the 1940s with Stalin's policies.

* February 25 – Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin as a " cult of personality ".

On February 1, 1936, it was reported that Nikita Izotov had mined 607 tons of coal in a single shift.

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

Moreover, in February 1609 a national home guard headed by Nikita Vysheslavtsev was formed in Vologda and went to fight against False Dmitry II.

He was an ally of Nikita Khrushchev during his power struggle with Georgy Malenkov, and in February 1955 he succeeded Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.

The dangers of a exalting a single leader and the desirability of collective leadership had been perhaps the most direct point of Nikita Khrushchev ’ s Secret Speech to the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in February 1956, in which he condemned Stalin, Stalin ’ s methods and his cult of personality and which, according to Archie Brown, “ was the beginning of the end of international Communism .”

Sergei's son from a previous marriage, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, a Russian journalist, died on February 22, 2007, aged 47, from a stroke.

In February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev in his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences condemned the deportations as a violation of Leninist principles, asserting as a joke that the Ukrainians avoided such a fate " only because there were too many of them and there was no place to which to deport them.

" On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences " () was a report by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev made to the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956.

The story that Ordzhonikidze committed suicide was first mentioned by Nikita Khrushchev during his Secret Speech of February 25, 1956.

On 25 February 1956, at a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered a " secret speech " in which he criticized actions taken by the Stalin regime, particularly the purges of the military and the upper Party echelons, and the development of Stalin's cult of personality, while maintaining support for the ideals of Communism by invoking Vladimir Lenin.

He was elected a candidate member of the Presidium ( as the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was then called ) on 14 February 1957 and served as a full member from 29 June 1957 until he was relieved of his duties on 16 November 1964, following the ousting of his mentor, Nikita Khrushchev a month earlier.

* February 25: Nikita Khrushchev delivers the speech " On the Personality Cult and its Consequences " at the closed session of the Twentieth Party Congress of the CPSU.

In February 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the cult of personality that surrounded his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, and condemned crimes committed during the Great Purge.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseyenko (; ; 9 March 1883 – 10 February 1938 ), real surname Ovseyenko, party aliases the ' Bayonet ' ( Штык ) and ' Nikita ' ( Ники ́ та ), a literary pseudonym A. Gal ( А. Га ́ льский ), was a prominent Soviet Bolshevik leader and diplomat.

Chaplin continued being a subject to political controversy throughout the 1950s, especially as he was awarded the International Peace Prize by the Communist World Peace Council and lunched with Chou En-Lai in 1954, and when he briefly met Nikita Khrushchev in 1956.

* 1956 – In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.

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.

Regardless of whether a plot to deport Jews was planned, in his " Secret Speech " in 1956, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stated that the Doctors Plot was " fabricated ... set up by Stalin ", that Stalin told the judge to beat confessions from the defendants and had told Politburo members " You are blind like young kittens.

Many more non-Kazakhs arrived in the years 1953 – 1965, during the so-called Virgin Lands Campaign of Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev ( in office from 1956 to 1964 ).

Then in 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev made a sweeping denunciation of Stalin, which sent shock waves throughout the communist world.

During and after the rule of Nikita Khrushchev ( 1956 – 64 ), Soviet historiographic practice is more complicated.

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 ).

With the press still heavily controlled and censored under Nikita Khrushchev, a translation by Akhmatova was praised in a public review in 1955, and her own poems began to re-appear in 1956.

By that time Mao had witnessed Nikita Khrushchev denouncing Joseph Stalin and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, events by which he felt threatened.

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

Nikita Khrushchev recalled Marx's criticism in his 1956 " Secret Speech " denouncing Joseph Stalin and his cult of personality to the 20th Party Congress:

Bond's examination of the hull of the Disco Volante was inspired by the ill-fated mission undertaken on 19 April 1956 by the ex-Royal Navy frogman " Buster " Crabb on behalf of MI6, as he examined the hull of the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze that had brought Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin on a diplomatic mission to Britain.

After Nikita Khrushchev delivered his famous secret speech against Stalin at the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 20th Congress, a BKP Central Committee plenary meeting was convened in April 1956 to agree to adopt a new Krushchevite line.