Day after day, a few words from the secret speech would leak out, and day after day, our copy was killed. It was clear that Khrushchev was trying to paint the Stalin epoch as a massive aberration ...

In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev delivered a shocking speech that exposed Stalin’s crimes. It triggered De-Stalinization and reshaped the Soviet Union forever. China reacts to Trump tariffs bombshell ...

Russia today marked the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech," in which he denounced the crimes committed under dictator Josef Stalin and the cult of personality surrounding the ...

Recovery has set in, sporadically, in the 50 years that have passed since Khrushchev delivered his “secret speech.” But progress was slow and even now has far to go. Let us hope that by 2056 ...

Nevertheless, I’m reluctant to let the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev’s famous “secret speech” – his denunciation of Stalin and Stalinism, delivered to the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist ...

The most sensational event in recent Communist history was Nikita Khrushchev’s three-hour secret address to the 20th Congress of the party in February. Ever since, Western intelligence agents ...

SIMON: John Rettie of Reuters wrote that story. He was the first reporter to learn of Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech in February 1956 to the Communist Party elite. Now Josef Stalin had been ...

But it is possibly more relevant, at this precise moment, to focus on just one aspect of the biography: Taubman’s discussion of Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret speech” to the 20 th Congress of ...

Smith is back with a sequel, “The Secret Speech.” The title refers to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s 1956 address admitting Stalin’s crimes. The speech frightened Russians as much as it ...