Khrushchev’s ‘Secret Speech’, given to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, outlined his policy of ‘de-Stalinisation’. In his address, he criticised the purges, persecution of ...

Khrushchev was disliked within Russia for his ‘Secret Speech’ in which he criticised the communist regime and many of its leaders. Not only did the speech alienate hard-line Stalinists ...

Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, pounded his shoe on his delegate desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong. Since then ...