in 1954, nikita khrushchev became the leader of the soviet union. he attempted to reform the soviet government and change how socialism in the country should be ran. in order to do this, he had to change the way the public thought of stalin, this is called revisionism. he removed stalin's corpse out of the mausoleum in red square and he changed the name of stalingrad (which was named after stalin) to volgograd. some people disliked khrushchev’s reform and those who oppose revisionism are called anti-revisionist.