De-Stalinization

De-Stalinization was a counter-revolutionary campaign beginning in the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc states to attack the legacy of Joseph Stalin, dismantle the dictatorship of the proletariat, and reverse the achievements of the Leninist government of the Soviet Union. De-Stalinization began in the 1950s with the assassination of Stalin and rise of Nikita Khrushchev to power. The campaign, conducted covertly for several years, was declared openly in 1956 with the so-called "Secret Speech" given by Khrushchev.

De-Stalinization represented the success of revisionism in the Soviet Union and other former socialist states and their restoration of capitalism. With the exception of Socialist Albania, the other countries of the socialist bloc submitted to Soviet social-imperialism and revisionism.

See also

• Anti-Stalinism
• Soviet revisionism
• Reform and Opening-up
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the successor to the Bolshevik Party which underwent de-Stalinization