 Complete the following phrase:  In February 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the cult of personality surrounding his predecessor Joseph Stalin and condemned crimes committed during the Great Purge. Khrushchev gave his four-hour speech, On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, condemning the Stalin regime. Historian Robert V. Daniels holds that neo-Stalinism prevailed politically for more than a quarter of a century after Stalin himself left the scene. Following the Trotskyist comprehension of Stalins policies as a deviation from the path of MarxismLeninism, George Novack described Khrushchevs politics as guided by a neo-Stalinist line, its principle being that the socialist forces can conquer all opposition even in the imperialist centers, not by the example of internal class power, but by the external power of Soviet example, explaining as such: Khrushchevs innovations at the 