Khrushchev Thaw: Difference between revisions

The death of Stalin in 1953 and the twentieth CPSU congress of February 1956 had a huge impact throughout Eastern Europe. Literary thaws actually preceded the congress in Hungary, Poland, [[People's Republic of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], and the [[German Democratic Republic|GDR]] and later burgeoned briefly in [[Czechoslovakia]] and Mao's [[China]]. With the exception of the arch Stalinist and anti-Titoist [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania|Albania]], [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]] was the only country where intellectuals avoided an open clash with the regime, influenced partly by the lack of any earlier revolt in post-war Romania that would have forced the regime to make concessions.<ref>Johanna Granville, [https://www.scribd.com/doc/17679545/DejAVu-Early-Roots-of-Romanias-Independence-by-Johanna-Granville "''Dej''-a-Vu: Early Roots of Romania's Independence,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014154623/http://www.scribd.com/doc/17679545/DejAVu-Early-Roots-of-Romanias-Independence-by-Johanna-Granville |date=2013-10-14 }} ''East European Quarterly'', vol. XLII, no. 4 (Winter 2008), pp. 365-404.</ref>