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Khrushchev is considered to be responsible for numerous theoretical errors and policy mistakes<ref name=":999" /> which laid the groundwork for further problems—problems which eventually culminated in the [[overthrow of the Soviet Union]]. Most notably, he denounced former leader [[Joseph Stalin]] in his infamous "[[On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences|Secret Speech]]" to the [[20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th Party Congress]] on 25 February 1956, blaming many of the USSR's problems on Stalin and his [[cult of personality]]<ref name=":022">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2017|title=Red Star over the Third World|chapter=Polycentric Communism|page=117|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacecu7gb2ei65us6ip3r2ugcgkblneqcftbm456mb6bzvprkbqk55qm?filename=Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20Red%20Star%20Over%20the%20Third%20World-LeftWord%20Books%20%282018%29.pdf|city=New Delhi|publisher=LeftWord Books}}</ref> (despite the fact that Khrushchev himself had been involved in maintaining this cult,{{Citation needed}} and despite the fact Stalin himself opposed it)<ref>{{Citation|author=J.V. Stalin|year=1930|title=Letter to Comrade Shatunovsky|quote=You speak of your "devotion" to me. Perhaps it was just a chance phrase. Perhaps. But if the phrase was not accidental I would advise you to discard the "principle" of devotion to persons. It is not the Bolshevik way. Be devoted to the working class, its Party, its state. That is a fine and useful thing. But do not confuse it with devotion to persons, this vain and useless bauble of weak-minded intellectuals.|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1930/08/x01.htm}}</ref> and initiating a policy of [[Destalinisation]]. | Khrushchev is considered to be responsible for numerous theoretical errors and policy mistakes<ref name=":999" /> which laid the groundwork for further problems—problems which eventually culminated in the [[overthrow of the Soviet Union]]. Most notably, he denounced former leader [[Joseph Stalin]] in his infamous "[[On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences|Secret Speech]]" to the [[20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th Party Congress]] on 25 February 1956, blaming many of the USSR's problems on Stalin and his [[cult of personality]]<ref name=":022">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2017|title=Red Star over the Third World|chapter=Polycentric Communism|page=117|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacecu7gb2ei65us6ip3r2ugcgkblneqcftbm456mb6bzvprkbqk55qm?filename=Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20Red%20Star%20Over%20the%20Third%20World-LeftWord%20Books%20%282018%29.pdf|city=New Delhi|publisher=LeftWord Books}}</ref> (despite the fact that Khrushchev himself had been involved in maintaining this cult,{{Citation needed}} and despite the fact Stalin himself opposed it)<ref>{{Citation|author=J.V. Stalin|year=1930|title=Letter to Comrade Shatunovsky|quote=You speak of your "devotion" to me. Perhaps it was just a chance phrase. Perhaps. But if the phrase was not accidental I would advise you to discard the "principle" of devotion to persons. It is not the Bolshevik way. Be devoted to the working class, its Party, its state. That is a fine and useful thing. But do not confuse it with devotion to persons, this vain and useless bauble of weak-minded intellectuals.|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1930/08/x01.htm}}</ref> and initiating a policy of [[Destalinisation]]. | ||
[[Mao Zedong]] | [[Mao Zedong]] broke with the [[CPSU]] in response to Khrushchev's revisionism, leading to the [[Sino-Soviet split]].<ref name=":999" /> | ||
== Early life and career == | == Early life and career == |