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Still, interest in the bookstore has changed drastically since the early 1980s. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Communists-in-crisis turned to the store for literature on the coming world order...
While Chinese communism, the Soviet Union and the PRC (People’s Republic of Cambridge) have dimmed, collapsed and sold out, Revolution Books hasn’t. The store still proudly proclaims its mission: to provide access to a broad range of books by authors critical of the United States and global capitalism...
...This bookstore is associated with the Maoist movement,” he says. “The end of the Soviet Union, which had been opposing Maoist principles, was a new chance...
...February 1956, delivered the famous four-hour "secret speech" to the party congress in which he set forth Stalin's crimes and began the complex, much delayed process of de-Stalinization. Out of guilt or common decency, he began to rinse the terror out of Soviet life. Writes Taubman: "His daring but bumbling attempt to reform communism began the long, erratic process of putting a human face (initially his own) on an inhumane system...
When Khrushchev was at last deposed in 1964, in part because his shoe-banging performance at the U.N. had embarrassed the Soviet Union, he profited from his own reforms. Instead of shooting him, the party heavies sent him off to a retirement dacha at Petrovo-Dalneye, where he tended his garden like Don Corleone...