POL101Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nikita Khrushchev, On The Cult Of Personality And Its Consequences, Russian Culture
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Polc89 exam terms: the leading role of the communist party . The functions of a political party: articulation/ aggregation, representation, selection of office-holders. Stalin breached the leninist principle of collective leadership, hence the cult of personality. Stalin victimized innocent people, but khrushchev focused mainly on stalin"s attack on the party after 1934; Khrushchev accused stalin of the murder of kirov; Khrushchev said he would rehabilitate the party and military people; eventually, regular people were released from the gulags. Stalin was accused of the misconduct of the war. This is stalin"s military genius; this is what it cost us; . Khrushchev condemned the wholesale deportations towards the end of the war of people who had been under german occupation and who were accuse of collaboration the. The ukrainians avoided meeting this fate only because there were too many of them and the was no place to which to deport them. ;
