World Communism: Phase Three

Khrushchev can no longer crack the whip over his empire as Stalin could, but never has the Communist threat been so serious, Communism’s power so great

Several sensational and unexpected disclosures at the Twenty-Second Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (in October 1961) confirm the thesis that Communism has entered the third period of its history, into which it has been shifting since the death of Stalin. Without altering its objective, Communism was unquestionably different under Lenin (1903-1924) from what it became in the Stalin era (1924-1953). By force of circumstance, it is again changing its outward form.

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Khrushchev can no longer crack the whip over his empire as Stalin could, but never has the Communist threat been so serious, Communism’s power so great

Several sensational and unexpected disclosures at the Twenty-Second Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (in October 1961) confirm the thesis that Communism has entered the third period of its history, into which it has been shifting since the death of Stalin. Without altering its objective, Communism was unquestionably different under Lenin (1903-1924) from what it became in the Stalin era (1924-1953). By force of circumstance, it is again changing its outward form.