HIST 1150 Chapter : The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
11 Dec 2011
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The rise and fall of the soviet union. When stalin died in 1953, the people needed relief from the poverty and repression of stalin"s last years. Nikita khrushchev had emerged as the new secretary of the. The new soviet leadership responded to this quickly by released some 5 million prisoners from the gulag (labor camps) by 1956. To stop mass arrests, purges, and show trials. Khrushchev believed in marxism-leninism but had to break. Stalin"s legacy. he made a secret" speech at the twentieth party. News of this spread, in eastern europe the speech stimulated desires to follow roads to socialism. Khrushchev years became ones of frustration and disappointed hopes. The soviet union and eastern europe under brezhnev. Under leonid brezhnev, general secretary of the communist party, (from 1964-1982) the soviet union secured long-sought international recognition of its postwar territorial gains in eastern.
