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	On the Personality Cult and its Consequences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In fact, the speech was prepared based on the results of a special party commission (Pospelov, Komarov, Aristov, Shvernik (chairman)), known as the Shvernik Commission, arranged at the session of the Presidium of the Party central committee on January 31, 1955.
		Shortly after the speech was made, reports of it were conveyed to the West by Reuters journalist John Rettie, who had been told about the speech by Kostya Orlova few hours before Rettie was due to leave for Stockholm; it was therefore reported in the Western media in early March.
		A "Stalinist" rebuttal of Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" from the CPUSA, 1956
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secret_Speech (1894 words)

	Stalin's speech on August 19, 1939 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stalin's speech on August 19, 1939 is argued to have been a secret speech of Stalin to Soviet leaders, wherein he supposedly described the strategy of the Soviet Union in the eve of WW2.
		In 1994, Russian publicist T. Bushuyeva published the alleged archival reference of the Speech in an article printed in the Novy Mir magazine (#12, 1994), based on what she claimed was recent findings in Soviet Special Archives of a text that according to her was supposedly recorded by a Comintern member present at the meeting.
		At the same time, "proofs" of non-existence of the speech are also being met with scepticism, in view of a similar vigorous denial of the Secret Protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stalin's_speech_on_Aug_19,_1939 (679 words)

	Oliver Kamm: The Secret Speech
		Khrushchev, it was said, had made a shattering report to a secret session, openly denouncing Stalin by name as a murderer and torturer of party members.
		Two years after the Secret Speech, new "Fundamental Principles of Criminal Law and Procedure" were enacted that had no practical impact whatever.
		Hook wrote to him ten years after the Secret Speech, with Lamont clearly still unable to accept its implications (the letter is reproduced in Letters of Sidney Hook: Democracy, Communism and the Cold War, 1995, pp.
	oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2006/02/the_secret_spee.html (758 words)

	Jason's Secret: The Speech Source, Inc.
		Jason's Secret is a novel by Ellen-Marie Silverman, Ph.D. for children from 9 through 12 years of age as well as a book for adults who want to learn what stuttering can feel like to a child.
		Speech and Language Therapist 'Dr Allen' directed the therapy, with a little in the way of negotiation or setting steps with the client.
		However, in Jason's Secret by Ellen-Marie Silverman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, the reader is able to feel what stutters feel regarding their difficulty in speaking because the books is a novel.
	www.thespeechsource.com /secret.asp (1387 words)

	Khrushchev's "Secret Speech," 1956
		Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), First Secretary of the Communist Party (1953-1964) and Premier of the Soviet Union (1958-1964) delivered the following speech to an unofficial, closed session of the Twentieth Party Congress on February 25, 1956.
		Although the contents of the speech were held confidential, it was soon leaked to outsiders.
		While he was careful to protect the spirit of Lenin, Khrushchev attacked the crimes committed by Stalin and his closest associates.
	www.historyguide.org /europe/khrush_speech.html (821 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Nikita S. Khrushchev: The Secret Speech - On the Cult of Personality, 1956
		Secret Speech Delivered by First Party Secretary at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, February 25, 1956
		Comrades, in the report of the Central Committee of the party at the 20th Congress, in a number of speeches by delegates to the Congress, as also formerly during the plenary CC/CPSU sessions, quite a lot has been said about the cult of the individual and about its harmful consequences.
		Engels and I first joined the secret society of Communists on the condition that everything making for superstitious worship of authority would be deleted from its statute.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1956khrushchev-secret1.html (4605 words)

	Consequences of the 'Secret Speech'
		The reforms ushered in by that speech were hardly as broad as some suppose and, as Ms.
		One consequence of the "secret speech" that Ms.
		The situation in Hungary and elsewhere in the region already was unstable when news of the speech burst upon the scene.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801563_pf.html (215 words)

	slacktivist: A top-secret public speech
		This speech was to be delivered in public and broadcast on television.
		The notion that a public speech must be redacted before the commission can have access to it is simply absurd.
		Because that speech made reference to "terrorist attacks at home or abroad" as a likelier and more urgent threat, it has been hailed since then as prescient.
	slacktivist.typepad.com /slacktivist/2004/04/a_topsecret_pub.html (784 words)

	American RadioWorks - Unmasking Stalin: A Speech That Changed the World
		Taubman: The use of the secret speech in the battle to succeed Stalin was in fact a brutal political calculation.
		But the secret speech, made to the communist elite at the 20th party congress, was a tactical move.
		Her inspiration and vitality had been stoked in significant part by Khrushchev's secret speech, which had fueled what she described as the spiritual emancipation of her soul.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/stalin/transcript.html (5826 words)

	Wedding Speech \| Secret Of Giving Wedding Speeches Everyone Will Love
		You may be full of doubt and fear that your speech won't come off the way you want it to.
		Speeches are very uncomfortable when you have never given one.
		You will also be given many speech samples that will help you in crafting your own speeches or you can just use those given here.
	www.getwhatever.com /weddingspeech (1007 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Secret Service Ordered Local Police to Restrict Anti-Bush Protesters at Rallies, ACLU ...
		Freedom of speech is protected in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights and is guaranteed to all Americans.
		The Secret Service is named as the federal defendant in the lawsuit, along with the Philadelphia Police Department for its role in the recent demonstrations in that city.
		"The Secret Service's directives, which have the effect of deciding which messages are to be afforded favorable treatment, are completely at odds with our Constitution's guarantees of free speech and rights of protest," Presser said.
	www.aclu.org /freespeech/protest/11423prs20030923.html (805 words)

	JS Online:Khrushchev's 'secret speech' lifted the curtain on Stalinism The speech that shook the world
		Although the speech was made in closed session, and has been known forever after as the "secret speech," it did not remain secret for long.
		The speech's effect on the Communist parties of Eastern Europe was radical.
		It is also clear now that the speech served, in part, as a continuation of the same internecine struggle within the Politburo that had marked the Stalin epoch and persisted long afterward.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=403976&format=print (1122 words)

	Cervantes [Publicaciones periódicas] : Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. Volume XVI, Number 1, ...
		High and low forms of speech stand in relief to each other, prayer contrasts with blasphemy, and the poet's song elaborates the natural speech of birds and animals.
		The speech of kings, priests, and poets is transformative.
		In defining the Cervantine figure of the artist pícaro, Forcione has observed that «both the individual and his speech are in a state of flux in the continual interplay of self and circumstances that defines experience» (Lawlessness 189).
	www.cervantesvirtual.com /servlet/SirveObras/13538343214242163754491/p0000006.htm (5368 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Russia
		For 50 years it has been known as the "secret speech" in which Nikita Khrushchev, then the Communist leader of the Soviet Union, denounced the reign of terror by which Joseph Stalin had ruled the Soviet empire.
		Khrushchev ordered that the speech not be reported in the compliant Soviet press, although this was a speech about crimes that everyone knew of – albeit secretly.
		From the speech to the final collapse was an erratic progress of more than three decades and there were many setbacks and reversals along the way.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/russia/khrushchev.html (1279 words)

	Nikita Khrushchev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He pursued a course of reform and shocked delegates to the 20th Party Congress on February 23, 1956 by making his famous Secret Speech denouncing the "cult of personality" that surrounded Stalin, although he himself had no small part in cultivating it, and accusing Stalin of the crimes committed during the Great Purges.
		This effectively alienated Khrushchev from the more conservative elements of the Party, but he managed to defeat what he termed the Anti-Party Group after they failed in a bid to oust him from the party leadership in 1957.
		In his Secret Speech, denounced Stalin for his personality cult and his regime for "violation of Leninist norms of legality", marking the onset of the Khrushchev Thaw.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev (2682 words)

	Khrushchev's Secret Speech
		The speech was "secret" in the sense that it was read in a closed session without discussion and was neither published as part of the congress' proceedings nor reported in the Soviet press.
		Noticeably absent from this indictment were the collectivization drive that was accompanied by massive state violence and famine, the repression of intellectuals, and any implication that other party leaders -- himself included -- shared responsibility for the crimes that Khrushchev mentioned.
		The speech sent shock waves throughout the Communist world and caused many western Communists to abandon the movement.
	www.soviethistory.org /index.php?action=L2&SubjectID=1956secret&Year=1956 (354 words)

	mp3: JFK Secret Society Speech - Gold & Silver Forum
		Listen to this incredible audio recording of a speech made by JFK before the American Newspaper Publishers Association where he warns the press about the secret societies that are the real power in global affairs.
		The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.
		We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.
	goldismoney.info /forums/showthread.php?p=276950#post276950 (2222 words)

	Observer \| The secret speech that changed world history
		It was only years afterwards that it became clear that the party leadership was still arguing about the text of the speech to be made by Khrushchev the next morning to a secret session of party delegates.
		It can well be argued that the 'secret speech' was the century's most momentous, planting the seed that eventually caused the demise of the USSR.
		Before his speech in 1956 there was already a consensus for change among the elite.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329421126-119093,00.html (2475 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Criticizes Secret Service Investigation of News Website That Posted RNC ...
		Beeson said she found it ironic that the Secret Service subpoena said that the men were sought in connection with an investigation of voter intimidation.
		Last year, the ACLU filed a class-action lawsuit against the Secret Service over the agency's practice of forcing activists into remote "protest zones" during Bush administration events, while allowing pro-Bush supporters to remain in close proximity.
		A judge dismissed the case after the agency insisted that the practice was not a matter of policy and agreed that such a policy would violate important free speech rights protected under the Constitution.
	www.aclu.org /FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=16341&c=86 (770 words)

	“Free-Speech Zone”
		Secret Service agent Holly Abel testified at the trial that Bursey was told to move to the “free speech zone” but refused to co-operate.
		Secret Service agent Brian Marr explained to National Public Radio, “These individuals may be so involved with trying to shout their support or non-support that inadvertently they may walk out into the motorcade route and be injured.
		But instead of a “free speech zone”—as such areas are labeled in the U.S.—the Bush administration demanded an “exclusion zone” to protect Bush from protesters’ messages.
	www.amconmag.com /12_15_03/feature.html (1822 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| The real secret of Khrushchev's speech
		Uttered 50 years ago tomorrow, this was Khrushchev's secret speech: a coruscating indictment of Stalinism that would roll out across the world; the beginning of the "thaw" and the end of terror in a country where hundreds of thousands had been shot or sent to the gulags.
		In the west, the speech has mostly been interpreted as a brave and moral step that changed the fate of the country.
		Although the full text of the speech was not published in the Soviet Union until the late 80s, excerpts were passed to local party officials and read at meetings.
	www.guardian.co.uk /russia/article/0,,1716627,00.html (1309 words)

	ScienCentral Video News: Secret Speech Aid
		She's better at this than she was five years ago when a stroke put a stranglehold on her vocal muscles, altering her speech.
		Now NASA researchers are taking a leap in the direction of deciphering speech.
		Applications could include communication in "covert operations with military troops, private speech between individuals, situations where you can't speak normally, underwater or in fire gear, or possibly where there's high noise or you have a respirator," Jorgensen says.
	www.sciencentral.com /articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392411 (889 words)

	Krushchev's Secret Speech
		A career secret policeman, Yagoda was Deputy head of the OGPU (the successor organ to the Cheka and the forerunner of the NKVD) in 1924-1934, and headed the NKVD in 1934-1936.
		He headed the secret police in the Caucasus from 1927 to 1931, held the same post in Ukraine 1932-33, was an OGPU liason to Moscow Province in 1933-34, and from 1934 through 1937 bossed the NKVD in the Moscow region.
		As Boris Nikolaevsky noted long ago in annotating the "Secret Speech," this was in fact an oblique endorsement of the Yezhovshchina (lit., "Yezhov affair", the term commonly used in Russian to refer to then-NKVD head Yezhov's direction of what is generally considered the worst period of the Great Purges).
	www.ebbemunk.dk /stalin/krushchev7.html (7908 words)

	La gran sultana: Transformations in Secret Speech, by Maryrica Ortiz Lottman
		Their words reveal the textures of disguise and secret speech at a moment when Madrigal is masquerading as a tailor and Cristián has not yet disclosed his identity as Catalina's father.
		He hoodwinks his victim by inventing secrets and promising him everything —including health in body and soul and the sultan's undying gratitude.
		Her dance steps and her elaborate Christian costume reclaim the Spanish national character, and the musicians are prompted to praise dance as the essence of Siglo de Oro theater, presaging the play's celebration of metatheater.
	www.h-net.org /~cervantes/csa/artics96/ortizlot.htm (5567 words)

	Condoleeezzza Rice to Give Secret Speech - DiscussAnything.com -
		So, in that sense, it's secretive if the event is closed to the press.
		Condolesbian Rice is giving a secret speech to four thousand people.
		Secret is probably the wrong word used to describe the meeting.
	www.discussanything.com /forums/showthread.php?t=29078 (402 words)

	Russia: Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech' Remembered After 50 Years - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In this speech, Khrushchev accused his predecessor, Josef Stalin, of creating a regime based on "suspicion, fear, and terror." Khrushchev added that he wanted to break the cult of Stalin, who had died three years before.
		According to delegates who witnessed the speech, it provoked deep shock among the audience -- many delegates were reportedly crying, others were holding their heads in despair, and several even had heart attacks in the conference hall.
		Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalinism became known as the "secret speech," since it was delivered behind closed doors and was not made public until 18 March 1956.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2006/02/65e55bb7-8f00-48eb-8876-bef95791a1ea.html (1534 words)

	CNN Cold War - Document: Khrushchev's secret speech
		On February 25, 1956, Khrushchev addressed the 20th Party Congress of the U.S.S.R. In his lengthy speech, Khrushchev extensively discusses the paranoia and brutality of Stalin's reign.
		After the speech, new investigations led to the release of thousands of prisoners for years to come.
		The contents of the speech, originally secret, were soon known to the world, and the truth of Stalin's reign began to come out.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/07/documents/khrushchev (504 words)

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