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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Reference Writers: J. V. Stalin Joseph Stalin Reference Archive 1879 - 1953 Biography Works: 1913: Marxism and the National Question 1921, Jan 5: Our Disagreements 1924: Trotskyism or Leninism 1924: October Revolution & Tactics of the Russian Communists 1925, Jan 25: A Letter To Comrade D-ov 1925, Aug 1: A Letter To Comrade Molotov 1925, Sep 15: A Letter To Comrade Yermakovsky 1928, May 28: On ...

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Josef Stalin (1879-1953) How To Be a Good Dictator ... and he is even thankful for the human warmth coming out of my palm. &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp When Josef Stalin was on his deathbed he called in two likely successors, to test which one of the two had a better knack for ruling the country. &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp He ordered two birds to be brought in and presented one bird to each of the ...

19 March 1922 Lenin to Molotov The 'Black Hundreds' Anti-Clerical Campaign Copy To Comrade Molotov Top Secret For members of the Politburo Please make no copies for any reason. Each member of the Politburo (incl. Comrade Kalinin) should comment directly on the document. Lenin. In regard to the occurrence at Shuia, which is already slated for discussion by the Polituro, it is necessary right now ...

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

Raack, R.C., Stalin's Role in the Coming of World War II, World Affairs, (vol. 158, no.4) Spring 1996 Viktor Suvorov is the nom de plume of a former officer of Soviet military intelligence long resident in England. In the 1980s, he published a new history of Stalin's wartime military plans that should have shaken established historical terra firma--were his account to be believed. In 1990, ...

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.

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