destalinization

The Leningrad Affair was a purge of Soviet politicians and public officials based in the city of Leningrad who had become heroes thanks to the siege it endured during WW2. Around 2.000 public officials lost their positions and were exiled to Siberia while the more prominent leaders, such as...

Let's assume that Nikita Khrushchev dies from a random shell or from an accident at Stalingrad, leaving him out of contention for succeeding Stalin by virtue of being dead, so who succeeds Stalin in such a scenario? What would the USSR look like under this alternate successor to Stalin? Do we...