The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

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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.

In 1956 at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Khrushchev condemned the cult of personality that had been built up around Joseph Stalin and also accused him of many grave mistakes.

Unity within the Albanian Party of Labour began to decline as well, with a special delegate meeting held in Tirana in April, 1956, composed of 450 delegates and having unexpected results.

* 1956 – The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow.

In 1956, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) was organized clandestinely by Amílcar Cabral and Rafael Barbosa.

In 1956 he was elected Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and became Leader of the House, and from this point on he was generally acknowledged as Menzies ' heir apparent.

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.

He became gradually less attracted to communism and became a less active member, finally leaving the Party in 1956 like many other intellectuals, after the Soviet Union brutally suppressed the Hungarian Revolution ( Haldane had left the party in 1950 after becoming similarly disillusioned ).

Sartre always sympathized with the Left, and supported the French Communist Party ( PCF ) until the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.

In December 1956 Masurian pro-Polish activists signed a memorandum to the Communist Party leadership:

Nikita Khrushchev's February 1956 speech " On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences ", and the subsequent Hungarian Revolution of 1956, confused the Communist Party of the USA, the Communist Party of Great Britain, and the Japanese Communist Party, none of whom were able to present a unified response.

The Communist Party of Germany had been outlawed since 1956.

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 ).

Kekkonen's policies, especially towards the USSR, were criticised within his own party by Veikko Vennamo, who broke off his Centre Party affiliation when Kekkonen was elected president in 1956.

* November 6 – André Marty, French Communist Party leader ( d. 1956 )

* Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Giovanni Gronchi ( 1946 – 1948 ), Giuseppe Cappi ( 1948 – 1949 ), Giuseppe Spataro ( 1949 ), Giuseppe Cappi ( 1950 ), Giuseppe Bettiol ( 1950 – 1953 ), Aldo Moro ( 1953 – 1956 ), Attilio Piccioni ( 1956 – 1958 ), Luigi Gui ( 1958 – 1962 ), Benigno Zaccagnini ( 1962 – 1968 ), Fiorentino Sullo ( 1968 ), Giulio Andreotti ( 1968 – 1972 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1972 – 1978 ), Giovanni Galloni ( 1978 – 1979 ), Gerardo Bianco ( 1979 – 1983 ), Virginio Rognoni ( 1983 – 1986 ), Mino Martinazzoli ( 1986 – 1989 ), Vincenzo Scotti ( 1989 – 1990 ), Antonio Gava ( 1990 – 1992 ), Gerardo Bianco ( 1992 – 1994 )

* 1891 – B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist, maker of Indian Constitution ( d. 1956 )

Following the promulgation of 1956 Constitution, Prime minister Bogra appointed Bengali bureaucrat and retired Major-General Iskander Mirza was as Interior minister and the Army Commander of army General Ayub Khan as the Defence minister whilst Muhammad Ali remained Economic minister.

The 1956 Constitution provided the country with Semi-Presidential system and the office of President was inaugurated the same year.

On April 4, 1956, leaving from Pier 84 in New York Harbor, Kelly, with her family, bridesmaids, poodle, and over eighty pieces of luggage boarded the ocean liner SS Constitution for the French Riviera.

In January 1956, the new Constitution of Egypt was drafted, entailing the establishment of a new single-party system, the National Union, which would select a nominee for the presidential election whose name would be provided for popular approval.

India remained a Dominion of the Crown until 26 January 1950, when the Constitution of India came into force, establishing the Republic of India ; Pakistan was a dominion until 1956.

In preparation for the Eighth National Congress, held in September 1956, Peng attended a Politburo committee to redraft the new Party Constitution.

Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Zhen, and most other senior CCP members present quickly agreed, and it was removed from the final version of the 1956 Party Constitution.

It also includes a variety of sports facilities, including the National Stadium ( Meiji Jingu Gaien Stadium and later, since 1956, on the same site Tokyo Olympic Stadium ), the Meiji Memorial Hall, which was originally used for governmental meetings, including discussions surrounding the drafting of the Meiji Constitution in the late 19th century.

Wayne University was renamed Wayne State University in 1956, and the institution became a constitutionally established university by popularly adopted amendment to the Michigan Constitution in 1959.

It was Pakistan's first ever constitution by consensus unlike two earlier constitutions, the Constitution of 1956 and the Constitution of 1962.

The first Pakistani Constituent Assembly was elected in 1947 and after nine years adopted the first indigenous constitution, the short-lived Constitution of 1956.

From June 1956 to 1957 he served as a member of the Reid Commission, which was responsible for drafting the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya ( now Malaysia ).

Maharashtra will always remain proud of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar ( 1891 – 1956 ), the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and the creator of a social and political awareness among the Scheduled Castes of India.

Prime minister Suhrawardy and his legal team drafted and imposed the 1956 Constitution of Pakistan, replacing the official title of Governor-General of Pakistan by the President of Pakistan.

Therefore, on 7 October 1958, Mirza issued an executive decree and a state presidential proclamation abrogating the 1956 Constitution of Pakistan.

Kerry Lyn Jones ( born 19 April 1956 ) is the former National Executive Director for Australians for Constitutional Monarchy ( ACM ) and is the current Executive Director of the Constitution Education Fund Australia ( CEFA ).

His government lasted only one year but widely regarded to have promulgated the 1956 Constitution with wide scale public approval.

It is also the site where the Alaska Constitution was drafted and signed in 1955 and 1956.

Thereafter, the Governor General, convened the Second Constituent Assembly in May, 1955, which framed and passed the first Constitution of Pakistan on 29 February 1956.

That Constitution was promulgated on 23 March 1956, which provided for a parliamentary form of Government with a unicameral legislature.

However, from 14 August 1947 to 1 March 1956 the Government of India Act 1935, was retained as the Constitution of Pakistan.

This Assembly also achieved its target by giving the first Constitution to the nation i. e. the Constitution of Pakistan 1956.