Question

Explain khrushchev's relationship to stalinism

Answer 1

Nikita Khrushchev led the process of De-Stalinization of the Soviet Union.

Step-by-step explanation:

De-Stalinization was a process that consisted in eliminating the cult of personality and the excess of power of the Stalinist period that began technically in 1953, after the death of Stalin, but was not official until 1956, after the secret report of Nikita Khrushchev, then Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union.

The secret speech of Khrushchev was communicated on February 25, 1956 to 1436 delegates of the Communist Party gathered in closed cloister. Therefore, members of foreign communist parties were excluded.

In it, mass deportations, political repression "of honest communists and military leaders treated as enemies of the revolution", Stalin's inability to prepare for war, and his exaggeratedly suspicious character unleashed against the foreign communist parties, were denounced against his own countrymen.

Answer 2

Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958 to 1964. Though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. At home, he initiated a process of “de-Stalinization” that made Soviet society less repressive. Yet Khrushchev could be authoritarian in his own right, crushing a revolt in Hungary and approving the construction of the Berlin Wall. Known for his colorful speeches, he once took off and brandished his shoe at the United Nations.