XX and XXI Congresses of the CPSU (1956-1959)

Views of Moscow streets and Red Square in January 1959 (top).

Delegates of the 21st Congress of the CPSU walk through the Moscow Kremlin to the first session of the congress in the Grand Kremlin Palace on January 27, 1959. Delegates enter the doors of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Delegates head toward the entrance to the palace.

Delegates walk up the main staircase of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Faces of congress delegates and foreign guests during the session.

Views of the meeting room, delegates listen to Khrushchev's report.

View of the presidium of the congress, Khrushchev is on the rostrum (top).

View of the congress hall (top).

Khrushchev is delivering a report from the rostrum, with Brezhnev sitting behind him on the presidium.

The delegates in the hall applaud after Khrushchev's report, Khrushchev finishes his report.

The leaders of the fraternal communist parties listen to Khrushchev's speech in the presidium, among them Zhou Enlai and Novotny A. The delegates applaud after Khrushchev's report.

Budyonny S. M. is in the hall among the applauding delegates.

The members of the presidium applaud standing up, among them are Mazurov K. T., Kirichenko A. I., Kunayev D. A., Khrushchev N. S., Podgorny N. V. Applauding delegates of the congress.

Broadcasting reports on the work of the congress by teletype.

Announcers of foreign radio stations read reports on the work of the 21st Congress of the CPSU in front of microphones, the faces of the announcers.

Receiving greetings addressed to the congress.

People buy up newspapers at street kiosks.

People on the streets and in public transport read newspapers with information on the work of the congress.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin during the days of the 21st Congress of the CPSU. Delegates in the meeting hall (panorama).

View of the congress presidium (from above).

Voroshilov K.E., Ignatov N.G., Mikoyan A.I. in the congress presidium during the debate.

Congress delegates in the hall during the debate.

Miner Mamai N.Ya., Academician Kurchatov I.V., steelmaker of the Minsk Automobile Plant Barashkin, poet Tvardovsky A.T., collective farmer Dolinyuk, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR Satpayev K.I., shipwright Gorbunov speak from the rostrum.

Congress delegates in the St.

George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace during a break between sessions.

Delegates talk to each other, among them are Kovpak S.A. Budyonny S.M. among congress delegates.

Congress delegates talk with Zhou Enlai and foreign guests.

Ibarruri D. talks to congress delegates.

Representatives of the CP of Austria during a break in the congress session.

Delegates in the hall stand up and applaud.

Vice Chairman of the CPC Central Committee Zhou Enlai speaks from the congress rostrum.

Delegates applaud standing up, Budyonny among the delegates.

View of the congress presidium, Khrushchev N.S. shaking hands with Zhou Enlai.

Applauding congress delegates (panorama).

Faces of delegates to the 20th Congress of the CPSU listening to Khrushchev’s report on February 14, 1956. Delegates to the 20th Congress in the St.

George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace during a break in the session.

Delegates to the 20th Congress of the CPSU stand up and applaud during the opening of the first session of the congress on February 14, 1956. Khrushchev N.S., Bulganin N.A., Voroshilov K.E., Kaganovich L.M., Mikoyan A.I., Pervukhin M.G., Kirichenko A.I., Suslov M.A. enter the hall and take their places in the presidium of the congress.

Delegates applauding in the hall (panorama).

Khrushchev N.S., standing in the presidium, delivers his opening remarks.

The members of the presidium stand to honor the memory of the leaders of the fraternal communist parties who have died in recent years (above).

The congress delegates stand during the minute of silence.

Khrushchev continues his speech, the members of the presidium stand and applaud.

The delegates greet the foreign guests of the congress with applause.

Khrushchev chairs the meeting, the delegates vote by raising their mandates during the elections of the congress's governing bodies.

View of the meeting hall (above).

The elected members of the congress presidium take their seats.

The delegates vote to adopt the agenda and the congress regulations.

Panorama of the congress presidium, Khrushchev goes to the podium to deliver his report, panorama of part of the congress meeting hall (above).