Khrushchev's Speech at the 20th Congress of the CPSU
- On February 24-25 1956, Khrushchev delivered a report in which he denounced Stalin’s crimes and the "cult of personality" surrounding Stalin. This speech would ultimately trigger a world-wide split.
- http://www.marxists.org/archive/khrushchev/1956/02/24.htm

"We Are in a Bind": Polish and Czechoslovak Attempts at Reforming the Warsaw Pact, 1956-1969
- Essay by Vojtech Mastny on the pressures for change within the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet response.
- http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=library.document&topic_id=1409&id=18

Eisenhower and Khrushchev
- Notes on relations between the US and Khrushchev during the Eisenhower presidency. Includes images from the "Kitchen Debate" between Khrushchev and then US Vice-President Richard Nixon.
- http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/khru.html

Khrushchev's Secret Speech -- Full Annotated Text
- Soviet leader's 1956 speech decrying Stalin's excesses. This speech marked the beginning of the "destalinization" process.
- http://www.uwm.edu/Course/448-343/index12.html

Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali. One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964.
- Book review by James N. Giglio.
- http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21116889743211

Modern History Sourcebook: Nikita S. Khrushchev: The Secret Speech - On the Cult of Personality, 1956
- The Secret Speech - On the Cult of Personality, 1956.
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956khrushchev-secret1.html

Nikita Khrushchev
- Background on the Soviet leader from a website on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/people/khrushchev.html