ABSTRACT
The pervasive ideology of communism, unchecked by the free expression of competing ideas, captured the minds belonging to the captured bodies. In 1953, at the time of Joseph Stalin death, the Communist world consisted of regimes built on the Soviet model. Nikita Khrushchev’s speech focused on Stalin’s crimes against members of the Communist Party and, in particular, on the false charges against Party members during the period of the late 1930s. Khrushchev’s revelations of Stalin’s crimes at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party did have widespread repercussions. In the cultural sphere the reform movement was pushed along significantly by a second de-Stalinization campaign launched by Khrushchev at the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in October 1961. In the somewhat more tolerant atmosphere of Yugoslav Communism, the Praxis school maintained an influence on culture and politics clear up to the time of the present crisis.
