When Khrushchev rose to power in the Soviet Union and promoted de-Stalinization and “peaceful co-existence,” the socialist world began to split. Traditional hardliners in the Eastern Bloc opposed what they perceived as heretic “revisionism”.
Albania, in particular, resisted Khrushchev’s agenda; it feared that a détente with Yugoslavia could revive Yugoslavian influence in Albania.
When Khrushchev rose to power in the Soviet Union and promoted de-Stalinization and “peaceful co-existence,” the socialist world began to split. Traditional hardliners in the Eastern Bloc opposed what they perceived as heretic “revisionism”.
Albania, in particular, resisted Khrushchev’s agenda; it feared that a détente with Yugoslavia could revive Yugoslavian influence in Albania.
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