Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Nikita S. Khrushchev: The Secret Speech - On the Cult of Personality, 1956 Secret Speech Delivered by First Party Secretary at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, February 25, 1956 Comrades, in the report of the Central Committee of the party at the 20th Congress, in a number of speeches by ...

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Khrushchev's famous Speech at the 20th Congress of the CPSU exposing Stalin's crimes ...

Nikita Khrushchev, 1894-1971 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born at Kalinkova near Kursk. He worked as a shepherd boy and a locksmith and is said to have been illiterate until the age of 25. Joining the Communist Party in 1918, he fought in the Civil War and rose rapidly in the party organization. In 1939, he was made a full member of the Politburo and of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.