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===De-Stalinization and the era of stagnation===
{{Main|History of the Soviet Union (1953–1964)|History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)|Era of Stagnation}}

[[File:Артимарка Микита Хрущов 2009.jpg|thumb|Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred [[Crimea]] from [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] to [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet Ukraine]]]]

In the power struggle that erupted after Stalin's death in 1953, his closest followers lost out. [[Nikita Khrushchev]] solidified his position in a speech before the [[20th Party Congress|Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party]] in 1956 detailing Stalin's atrocities.<ref name="CNN Khrushchev">{{cite news|publisher=CNN|url=http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/khrushchev/|title=Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev|accessdate=22 July 2007|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org(contracted; show full)
*[http://www.soviethistory.org/ Seventeen Moments in Soviet History] (An on-line archive of primary source materials on Soviet history.)

==External links==
*[http://www.library.illinois.edu/spx/webct/subjectresources/subsourrus/rushistbib2.html Guides to Sources on Russian History and Historiography]
*[http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_Russia:_Primary_Documents History of Russia: Primary Documents]