Abstract
Abstract This chapter covers Nikita Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization campaign in the USSR following the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956, followed by Khrushchev’s ouster and Leonid Brezhnev’s attempts to shore up public support by appealing to the memory of World War II, or the Great Patriotic War. It covers the Thaw period under Khrushchev that allowed greater discussion of the complexities of the conflict and the subsequent return to strict censorship and a simplified, glorious narrative of the Great Patriotic War under Brezhnev. It includes the reintroduction of the Victory Day holiday in 1965 and the new Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow in 1967. This chapter covers the period 1956–1976.
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