Totalitarianism” the intellectuals claim that it is all in the name of “democracy” and “democratization”. The truth is somewhere in the range that the Soviet Communists have taken significant steps toward “liberalizing” party and Soviet practices . This evolution towards democracy continues to march onwards and upwards. It has profoundly altered interests and practices , none withstanding.
Collective leadership , first under Malenkov, then under Khrushchev repudiated greatly Stalin;s techniques of government by extreme terror. Denouncing Stalin’s “cult of personality” - meaning his refusal to to recognize any law higher than his own bloody caprice - Khrushchev in his now famous “Secret Speech” ushered in a new era. Terror largely gave way to persuasion, arbitrary violence to government by law and rules. With the extensive de-Stalinization proceedings at the Twenty-second Congress five years afterwards the Party surpassed all previous attempts to sponge away the taints of Stalin’s autocracy.
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