And the Soviet Union had been an ally to the West during the war. But this event would help fuel anti-Communist sentiments throughout the western world. The man who touched off the political ...

Khrushchev encouraged a policy of ‘de-Stalinisation’ within the Communist Party and in the Soviet Union itself. He wanted to move away from the cult Stalin had created that had elevated Stalin ...

By the mid-1950s the dominant Soviet political figure Nikita Khrushchev was solidifying his grasp on power. In 1956, he made a speech to the Twentieth Communist Party Congress highlighting his ...