Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg was a Soviet writer, revolutionary, journalist and historian.
Ehrenburg in 1959
Ehrenburg, early 20th century
Sketch by Marie Vorobieff featuring Diego Rivera, Amedeo Modigliani and Ehrenburg at Rivera's atelier, 1916. It is titled "When will the war end?"
Ehrenburg (left) with Ernest Hemingway and Gustav Regler in Spain, 1937.
The Khrushchev Thaw is the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s when repression and censorship in the Soviet Union were relaxed due to Nikita Khrushchev's policies of de-Stalinization and peaceful coexistence with other nations. The term was coined after Ilya Ehrenburg's 1954 novel The Thaw ("Оттепель"), sensational for its time.
Khrushchev and Stalin, 1936, Kremlin
O kulcie jednostki i jego następstwach, Polish March 1956 print of the Secret Speech for the inner use in the PUWP.
Enver Mamedov (right), the editor of The USSR magazine, presents it to the CBS audience (1957)
Khrushchev meeting U.S. president John F. Kennedy in 1961