It relays a defector's account of a July 1955 Soviet Central Committee plenum where Khrushchev, Molotov, Mikoyan and Bulganin argued openly over de-Stalinization policy, relations with Yugoslavia and Austria, and nationalism in Soviet satellite states.
The defector also provided detailed background on the Polish Communist Party's internal ferment following security official Jozef Swiatlo's 1953 defection and the political rehabilitation of Wladyslaw Gomulka.
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