Question
This leader presided over a period whose name was coined by a short Ilya Ehrenburg novel. Vitaly Lagutenko designed the three- to five-story apartment buildings named after this leader, forming part of his Seven-Year Plan. The Anti-Party Group failed to depose this leader, resulting in Georgy Malenkov’s exile. This leader’s speech “On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences” moved away from his predecessor’s policies and introduced a namesake “Thaw.” This Soviet leader had Imre Nagy (“IM-ray NODJ”) executed and suppressed the Hungarian Revolution a few months after his “Secret Speech” of 1956. For 10 points, a “de-Stalinization” period began the tenure of what leader of the USSR? ■END■
ANSWER: Nikita Khrushchev [or Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev; accept khrushchevka or khrushchoba]
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Andrew Yang (UG) | Columbia B | Columbia A | 34 | -5 |
Daniel Shannon (DII) | University of Delaware A | Rowan | 47 | -5 |
Patrick Torre (DII) | Maryland | Swarthmore A | 58 | 10 |
Finn Doyle (DII) | Princeton | Swarthmore B | 68 | 10 |
Luke McCrory (DII) | NYU B | University of Delaware B | 90 | 10 |
Ashish Kumbhardare | Rowan | University of Delaware A | 105 | 10 |
Geoffrey Wu (UG) | Columbia A | Columbia B | 106 | 10 |