Lenin in October is a 1937 Soviet biographical drama film directed by Mikhail Romm and Dmitri Vasilyev and starring Boris Shchukin, Nikolay Okhlopkov and Vasili Vanin. Made as a Soviet-realist propaga
De-Stalinization comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by the ascension of Nikita Khrushchev
Lenin in October
…the activities of Lenin at the time of the October Revolution. All Stalin scenes were expunged from the film for its reissue in 1958 as a result of de-stalinisation. The movie was followed by Lenin in 1918, which was made two years later…
A badly-damaged head of the Stalin Monument in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
O kulcie jednostki i jego następstwach, Warsaw, March 1956, first edition of the Secret Speech, published for the inner use in the Polish United Workers' Party
The Statue of Stalin in Yerevan was removed in 1962 and replaced by Mother Armenia in 1967.