A Brutal Legacy Uncovered," which is an informational text about Stalin's
atrocities and how he used ambition and fear to rule over
people of the Soviet Union.
As Khrushchev informed the closed session of the Party
apparatchiks, his report—which has entered history as
the "Secret Speech"—was based on research by a
special commission of senior leaders of the Communist
Party. It covered primarily only one part of Stalin's
murderous record: the peak years of his savage "Great
Purge" in the mid- and late 1930s, a massacre that
wiped out a whole generation of Bolsheviks, the Party's
oldest and most faithful members.