"On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" was a speech given by Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, on February 25, 1956. It was formally a report by the First Secretary of the
O kulcie jednostki i jego następstwach, Polish March 1956 print of the Secret Speech for the inner use in the PUWP
Nikita Khrushchev 1962
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Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Sov
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
…and was published in the West within weeks, but was not published in the Soviet Union until 1989. Khrushchev's speech sharply criticized the rule of Joseph Stalin, the previous Soviet leader who had died in March 1953. Khrushchev condemned Stalin's purges, particularly the Great Purge of the late 1930s. He also…
Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943
Police photo of Stalin, 1902
First issue of Pravda, of which Stalin served as an early editor
Stalin in 1917 as a young People's Commissar