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19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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The Nineteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held from 5 to 14 October 1952. The Congress, which had been repeatedly announced and postponed,[1] was the first party congress after World War II and the last under Joseph Stalin's leadership. It was attended by many dignitaries from foreign Communist parties, including Liu Shaoqi from China. At this Congress, Stalin gave the last public speech of his life.[2] The 19th Central Committee was elected at the congress.

According to Sovietologist Philip E. Mosely, the 19th congress was a pure formality, as the party had been subsumed by the state apparatus in the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign.[3]

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An unofficial "inner circle" of Stalin's closest associates included Lavrentiy Beria, Nikolai Bulganin, Kliment Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich, Georgy Malenkov, Mikhail Pervukhin, Maksim Saburov, and Nikita Khrushchev.

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  1. ^ Wolfe, Bertram D. (1956). "Stalin's Ghost at the Party Congress". Foreign Affairs. 34 (4): 554–568. doi:10.2307/20031187. ISSN 0015-7120.
  2. ^ Speech of the 19th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 14 October 1952, by J. V. Stalin
  3. ^ Mosely, Philip E. (1953). "The Nineteenth Party Congress". Foreign Affairs. 31 (2): 238–256. doi:10.2307/20030957. ISSN 0015-7120.
  4. ^ Zhores A. Medvedev,Roj Aleksandrovič Medvedev, The Unknown Stalin, p. 40-41.
  5. ^ Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939 - 1953, p. 345.
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