Khrushchev thawPeriod of Soviet history, 1950s-60s Politics of the Soviet Union Leadership Leaders President list Vice President Collective leadership State Council Presidential Council Communist Party Congress Central Committee History General Secretary Politburo Secretariat Orgburo Supreme state organ of power Congress of Soviets Central Executive Committee Supreme Soviet Soviet of the Union Soviet of Nationalities Presidium Congress of People's Deputies Speaker 1989 Legislative election Governance Constitution Official names 1924 1936 1977 Government Ministries State Committees Cabinets Premiership First Deputy Premier Deputy Premier Administrator of Affairs Judiciary Law Supreme Court Military Collegium People's Court Procurator General Ideology Soviet democracy Marxism–Leninism LeninismStalinismKhrushchevism De-Stalinization Perestroika Glasnost Society Economy Agriculture Consumer goods Five-Year Plan Kosygin reform New Economic Policy Science and technology Era of Stagnation Material balance planning Transport War communism Culture Demographics Education Family Phraseology Religion Repression Censorship Censorship of images Great Purge Gulag system Collectivization Human rights Ideological repression Political abuse of psychiatry Political repression Population transfer Propaganda Suppressed research Red Terror Soviet Empire Soviet Union portal Other countries vte The Khrushchev thaw (Russian: хрущёвская о́ттепель, romanized: khrushchovskaya ottepel, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfskəjə ˈotʲːɪpʲɪlʲ] or simply ottepel) 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.
Nikita KhrushchevLeader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964First Secretary of the CPSU, 1953–1964Premier of the Soviet Union, 1958–1964Khrushchev Thaw20th Party CongressOn the Cult of Personality...22nd Party CongressDe-StalinizationRehabilitationSixtiersThe Thaw (novel)One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichDomestic policyTransfer of CrimeaSeven-year planCorn campaignVirgin Lands campaign (Tselinny Krai)Anti-Party GroupThird Program of the CPSUSovnarkhozyKhrushchevkiAnti-religious campaignMonetary reformDomestic unrest1956 Georgian demonstrations1958 Grozny riotsNovocherkassk massacreForeign policyPeaceful coexistenceHindi rusi bhai bhaiHungarian Revolution of 1956Kitchen Debate1959 visit to the USSpace Race1961 Berlin CrisisCuban Missile CrisisSino-Soviet splitCatchphrases and incidentsKuzma's motherWe will bury youShoe-banging incidentManege AffairCommunism in 20 yearsBibliographyBibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet UnionBibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet UniontNikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences"On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" (Russian: «О культе личности и его последствиях», romanized: "O kul'te lichnosti i yego posledstviyakh") 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 Communist Party of the Soviet Union (a position held by Khrushchev) to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
List of places named after Joseph StalinPersonalEarly lifeResidencesDeath and state funeralPre-leadership1905 Tampere conference1907 Tiflis bank robbery1906 Bolshevik raid on the Tsarevich GiorgiRussian RevolutionRussian Civil WarPolish-Soviet WarRise to powerLeader of the Soviet UnionTenureFirst five-year planAnti-religious campaign1930–1933 famineGreat PurgeDeath dates of victimsWorld War IIMolotov–Ribbentrop PactTehran ConferenceYalta ConferencePotsdam Conference1946–1947 famineExcess mortalityPolitical ideologyStalinismBibliographyComparison to NazismAntisemitismNeo-Marxism–LeninismWorksPoetry"Anarchism or Socialism?""Marxism and the National Question""Foundations of Leninism""Dizzy with Success""Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia""Ten Blows" speechAlleged 19 August 1939 speechFalsifiers of HistoryStalin NoteThe History of the Communist Party1936 Soviet ConstitutionDialectical and Historical MaterialismOrder No. 227Order No. 270"Marxism and Problems of Linguistics"Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSRJoseph Stalin bibliographyLegacyCult of personalityDe-StalinizationAnti-Stalinist leftAwards and honoursEponymous placesStatuesBlack Ribbon DayDuring Joseph Stalin's rule (1922–1953), many places, mostly cities, in the Soviet Union and other communist countries were named or renamed in honour of him as part of the cult of personality surrounding him.
Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It was the world's third-most populous country, the largest by area, and bordered twelve other countries.
List of statues of Joseph StalinPersonalEarly lifeResidencesDeath and state funeralPre-leadership1905 Tampere conference1907 Tiflis bank robbery1906 Bolshevik raid on the Tsarevich GiorgiRussian RevolutionRussian Civil WarPolish-Soviet WarRise to powerLeader of the Soviet UnionTenureFirst five-year planAnti-religious campaign1930–1933 famineGreat PurgeDeath dates of victimsWorld War IIMolotov–Ribbentrop PactTehran ConferenceYalta ConferencePotsdam Conference1946–1947 famineExcess mortalityPolitical ideologyStalinismBibliographyComparison to NazismAntisemitismNeo-Marxism–LeninismWorksPoetry"Anarchism or Socialism?""Marxism and the National Question""Foundations of Leninism""Dizzy with Success""Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia""Ten Blows" speechAlleged 19 August 1939 speechFalsifiers of HistoryStalin NoteThe History of the Communist Party1936 Soviet ConstitutionDialectical and Historical MaterialismOrder No. 227Order No. 270"Marxism and Problems of Linguistics"Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSRJoseph Stalin bibliographyLegacyCult of personalityDe-StalinizationAnti-Stalinist leftAwards and honoursEponymous placesStatuesBlack Ribbon DayThis is a list of former and current known monuments dedicated to Joseph Stalin, many having been removed as a result of de-Stalinization.
Joseph StalinLeader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953.
Joseph Stalin's cult of personalityPersonalEarly lifeResidencesDeath and state funeralPre-leadership1905 Tampere conference1907 Tiflis bank robbery1906 Bolshevik raid on the Tsarevich GiorgiRussian RevolutionRussian Civil WarPolish-Soviet WarRise to powerLeader of the Soviet UnionTenureFirst five-year planAnti-religious campaign1930–1933 famineGreat PurgeDeath dates of victimsWorld War IIMolotov–Ribbentrop PactTehran ConferenceYalta ConferencePotsdam Conference1946–1947 famineExcess mortalityPolitical ideologyStalinismBibliographyComparison to NazismAntisemitismNeo-Marxism–LeninismWorksPoetry"Anarchism or Socialism?""Marxism and the National Question""Foundations of Leninism""Dizzy with Success""Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia""Ten Blows" speechAlleged 19 August 1939 speechFalsifiers of HistoryStalin NoteThe History of the Communist Party1936 Soviet ConstitutionDialectical and Historical MaterialismOrder No. 227Order No. 270"Marxism and Problems of Linguistics"Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSRJoseph Stalin bibliographyLegacyCult of personalityDe-StalinizationAnti-Stalinist leftAwards and honoursEponymous placesStatuesBlack Ribbon DayJoseph Stalin's cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet popular culture.
StalinismPolitical and economic policies implemented by Joseph StalinPortrait of Joseph Stalin, after whom Stalinism is namedPersonalEarly lifeResidencesDeath and state funeralPre-leadership1902 Batumi workers' strikes [ka]1905 Tampere conference1907 Tiflis bank robbery1906 Bolshevik raid on the Tsarevich GiorgiRussian RevolutionRussian Civil WarPolish-Soviet WarRise to powerLeader of the Soviet UnionTenureFirst five-year planAnti-religious campaign1930–1933 famineGreat PurgeDeath dates of victimsWorld War IIMolotov–Ribbentrop PactTehran ConferenceYalta ConferencePotsdam Conference1946–1947 famineExcess mortalityPolitical ideologyStalinismBibliographyComparison to NazismAntisemitismNeo-Marxism–LeninismWorksPoetry"Anarchism or Socialism?""Marxism and the National Question""Foundations of Leninism""Dizzy with Success""Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia""Ten Blows" speechAlleged 19 August 1939 speechFalsifiers of HistoryStalin NoteThe History of the Communist Party1936 Soviet ConstitutionDialectical and Historical MaterialismOrder No. 227Order No. 270"Marxism and Problems of Linguistics"Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSRJoseph Stalin bibliographyLegacyCult of personalityDe-StalinizationAnti-Stalinist leftAwards and honoursEponymous placesStatuesBlack Ribbon DayStalinism (Russian: сталинизм) is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictatorJoseph Stalin and in Soviet satellite states between 1944 and 1953.
Death and state funeral of Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin, second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at his Kuntsevo Dacha after suffering a stroke, at age 74. He was given a state funeral in Moscow on 9 March, with four days of national mourning declared. On the day of the funeral, of the hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens visiting the capital to pay their respects, at least 109 were later acknowledged to have died in a crowd crush.
Russian languageRussian is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is the native language of the Russian people. Russian was the de facto (and de jure in its final years) official language of the former Soviet Union.
Romanization of RussianThe romanization of the Russian language (the transliteration of Russian text from the Cyrillic script into the Latin script), aside from its primary use for including Russian names and words in text written in a Latin alphabet, is also essential for computer users to input Russian text who either do not have a keyboard or word processor set up for inputting Cyrillic, or else are not capable of typing rapidly using a native Russian keyboard layout (JCUKEN).
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