Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te matenga o te kaiārahi o te Soviet a Joseph Stalin i te tau 1953, ka tīmata te kaupapa o te whakarerekētanga kaupapa here, i muri mai ka mohiotia ko te whakakorenga-Stalinization. Ko Nikita Khrushchev, i whai i a Stalin hei kaiarahi Soviet, i whakauruhia nga whakahoutanga totika i te wa e mohiotia ana ko te Khrushchev Thaw. Heoi anō te
Ko te Manege Affair o te tau 1962, i te wa i whakahe a Khrushchev i te whakaaturanga o te toi Soviet, i arahi ki te whakahoutanga o te mana o te Rōpū Communist ki nga toi me te tohu i te timatanga o te mutunga o te Cultural Thaw.