What were Khrushchev's likely motivations in delivering his "Secret Speech"? Consider what he covered, what he left out, and what he

emphasized in the speech, according to the text. Cite evidence from the

text in your answer. *

Khrushchev's likely motivations in delivering his "Secret  Speech" was to:

According to the given question, we are meant to show the likely motivations which Khrushchev had when he delivered his Secret Speech to the Politburo.

As a result of this, we can see that Nikita Khrushchev was making a speech to the Congress of the Politburo, which was the Russian Communist Party in 1956 to criticise the policies of Joseph Stalin.

With this in mind, he wanted the country to move away from the policies of their dead leader, Stalin and imbibe more of the policies of VLadimir Lenin

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The correct answer to this open question is the following.

What were Khrushchev's likely motivations in delivering his "Secret

Speech"?

The main motivation of Nikita Khrushchev in addressing the 20th Congress of the Russian Communist Party was to express a severe critic of Joseph Stalin'spolicies as the Soviet Union leader.

Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech was delivered on February 25, 1956, after the death of General Joseph Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev wanted to eliminate the image and presence of Stalin's decisions in the USSR politics and to move the nation into the model proposed by Vladimir Lenin.

During the speech,  Nikita Khrushchev condemned decision's made by Joseph Stalin before, during, and after World War II.

This speech is called secret because it remained like that for 33 years until it was revealed in 1989.