De-stalinization - getting rid of the influence of Josef Stalin.

Nikita Krushchev engineered Destalinization.

A return to Stalin's more restrictive policies, under Brezhnev's rule.

Nikita Khrushchev was the Soviet premier who announced a de-Stalinization program in the Soviet Union.

Hopes that good relations between the superpowers would ensure world peace soon faded as a result of the Stalinization of Eastern Europe and Soviet support of communist insurgencies in various parts of the globe.