- Stalin dies
- Beria reforms
- Beria killed off
- Malenkov and Krushchev rule as duumvirate
- Korean war ended
- Malenkov realises agriculture needs more investment
- Krushchev starts gaining power as Malenkov gets weaker
1954
- Virgin land scheme
1955
- Khrushchev takes power but doesn't kill Malenkov
- Most prison camps were closed
- Khrushchev begins to cut military spending
1956
- February - secret speech
- 1956 Reform
1957
- Sputnik launched
- February - 105 local councils given control of economic planning
- June - Presidium voted to replace Khrushchev but only the central committee had the power to get rid of him and they were still on his side
- World youth festival
- On New Years eve he gives a speech saying "all communists are Stalinists"
1958
- Khrushchev takes the title of Premier - officially in power
- 1958 Reform
- Record crops
1959
- Seven year plan
- Khrushchev goes to America
- Khrushchev said to Eisenhower "we will bury you"
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