Document on the preliminary approval of Khrushchev's ‘secret report’ at the XX Congress of the CPSU on the exposure of Stalin's personality cult, 1956
Only two people from the list gave their comments on the report: candidate member of the Politburo and Secretary of the Central Committee D.T. Shepilov and Secretary of the Central Committee P.N. Pospelov (the others had ‘no comments’).
After the end of the speech, N. A. Bulganin, who was presiding at the session, proposed not to open the debate on the report and not to ask questions.
The delegates of the Congress adopted two resolutions - approving the provisions of the report and sending it to party organisations without publishing it in the open press.
On 1 March 1956, a draft of the speech already delivered was submitted for final editing and agreement with members and candidates to the Presidium and secretaries of the Central Committee. In addition, references to ‘sources’ - the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin - were inserted. On 5 March, the Presidium of the Central Committee adopted a resolution to send Khrushchev's report to the party organisations of the country.
The report was first officially published in full in the USSR in 1989 in the magazinel Izvestiya СK CPSU.
Only two people from the list gave their comments on the report: candidate member of the Politburo and Secretary of the Central Committee D.T. Shepilov and Secretary of the Central Committee P.N. Pospelov (the others had ‘no comments’).
After the end of the speech, N. A. Bulganin, who was presiding at the session, proposed not to open the debate on the report and not to ask questions.
The delegates of the Congress adopted two resolutions - approving the provisions of the report and sending it to party organisations without publishing it in the open press.
On 1 March 1956, a draft of the speech already delivered was submitted for final editing and agreement with members and candidates to the Presidium and secretaries of the Central Committee. In addition, references to ‘sources’ - the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin - were inserted. On 5 March, the Presidium of the Central Committee adopted a resolution to send Khrushchev's report to the party organisations of the country.
The report was first officially published in full in the USSR in 1989 in the magazinel Izvestiya СK CPSU.