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Among other things, Khrushchev placed peaceful coexistence as the main aspect of Soviet foreign policy, replacing that of proletarian internationalism. He claimed that the position of Lenin and Stalin that imperialist wars were inevitable so long as capitalism existed was "dogmatic."
He claimed that the working-class should focus on achieving power and instituting socialism through parliamentary means and by making the laws of the bourgeois state apparatus "truly democratic." In the third world he claimed that the intelligentsia, army officers, and other strata could fulfill the role of the proletariat and carry out "non-capitalist development" in their countries as a road to socialism, so long as they maintained close ties with the "world socialist system" (i.e. Soviet social-imperialism.)
He claimed that the dictatorship of the proletariat was no longer valid in the USSR, and that Stalin's statements on the continuation of class struggle under socialism were anti-Marxist. For this reason Khrushchev declared that the USSR and CPSU represented "the whole people" and that internal class struggle was pretty much a thing of the past.
If you want a collection of some of the most important Chinese materials against Soviet revisionism in the Khrushchev period (all of which the Albanians endorsed as basically correct), see: http://marx2mao.com/Other/PGLtc.html
All of Khrushchev's successors continued to uphold the 20th Party Congress, the "whole people" character of the USSR and CPSU, etc. while adding some more theoretical "innovations" of their own.
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