February 25 highlights Khrushchev’s Secret Speech exposing Stalin’s crimes, plus key moments in politics, art, and science shaping global history.

Nina L. Khrushcheva teaches international affairs at New School University in New York. Her latest book, "Visiting Nabokov," is forthcoming from Yale University Press. WHEN NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV died in ...

The State Department released today the full text of the speech which Nikita Khrushchev delivered at the Communist Party congress in Moscow on February 24, denouncing Josef Stalin and revealing that ...

The consolidation of power in such a brutal form was not solely Stalin's fault, as Khrushchev claimed. Terror had been a ...

The most sensational event in recent Communist history was Nikita Khrushchev’s three-hour secret address to the 20th Congress of the party in February. Ever since, Western intelligence agents have ...

​​When Stalin died in March 1953 there seemed to be, as far as we can ascertain, a great outpouring of genuine grief across the USSR.

Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at the New School in New York, went back to Moscow recently to complete work on her forthcoming book, a biography of the Soviet leader Nikita ...

On 25 February 1956, the Soviet leader made a speech in which he called Stalin a dictator who had led a regime of ‘suspicion, fear and terror’ Khrushchev’s ‘secret speech’ to the 20th congress of the ...

Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech" to the Communist Party's Congress. It was the first major denunciation of Joseph Stalin and proved a watershed ...