The Year I Was Peter The Great: 1956 – Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia

"Marvin Kalb, 87, was a Moscow bureau chief and diplomatic correspondent for CBS and NBC, and he has written many books. His latest is a memoir of an especially interesting year: 1956. Kalb was a graduate student doing research in Moscow when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev gave a supposedly secret speech denouncing his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, who up to that point had been worshipped as a great leader. The speech sparked a liberalization movement in the country, which Khrushchev mercilessly crushed. By the end of 1956, the premier was once again praising Stalin."