Stalin's successor, [[Nikita Khrushchev]], served as Communist Party leader until he was ousted by other [[progressive]]s in the [[Politburo]] over dissatisfaction of Khurshchev's handling of foreign and domestic policy. Khtushchev was considered recklessness embarrassing during the [[Cuban missile crisis]]; and he allowed publication without [[censorship]] of [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]]'s ''Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'' with its [[Christian]] thematic material in a [[Leftwing]] [[totalitarian]] state.
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Under [[Nikita Khrushchev]], Russia moved away from a [[dictatorship]] to [[Democratic Socialism]]. Stalin's successor served as Communist Party leader until he was ousted by other [[progressive]]s in the [[Politburo]] over their dissatisfaction of his handling of foreign and domestic policy. Khrushchev was considered recklessness embarrassing during the [[Cuban missile crisis]]; and he allowed publication without [[censorship]] of [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]]'s ''Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'' with its [[Christian]] thematic material in a [[Leftwing]] [[totalitarian]] state.
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Khrushchev today is viewed as a [[liberal]] reformer.