HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Khrushchev
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Gorbachev
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Thaw became possible after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. First Secretary Khrushchev denounced former General Secretary Stalin in the “Secret Speech” at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, then ousted the Stalinists during his power struggle in the Kremlin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Khrushchev charged Stalin with having fostered a leadership cult of personality despite ostensibly maintaining support for the ideals of communism. The speech was leaked to the West by the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet, which received it from the Polish-Jewish journalist Wiktor Grajewski.
Detailed explanation-3: -Stalinism is used to describe the period during which Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union while serving as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to his death on 5 March 1953.
Detailed explanation-4: -This caused profound shock among communists throughout the world-who had been taught to admire Stalin-severely damaged the prestige of the Soviet Union, generated serious friction in the international communist movement, and contributed to uprisings in 1956 in Poland and Hungary. (See also Khrushchev’s secret speech.)