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Handout
Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, reformer of the Soviet Union. Includes information regarding Gorbachev's ascension to power with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and his role in reducing the Cold War...
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Primary
Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: Khrushchev's Secret Speech, 1956

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpt of Nikita Khrushchev's "Secret Speech," delivered before a closed session of the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956. In this speech, Khrushchev admits the many crimes and atrocities of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.