HISTORY AND CULTURE: Fifty years ago, Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin in a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Robert Conquest on an event "so surprising and unexpected that some members of the audience actually fainted."
This essay appeared in the Los Angeles Times on February 19, 2006. Available from the Hoover Press is The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag, edited by Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev. To order, call 800.935.2882 or visit www.hooverpress.org. Robert Conquest is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. |
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