Back in the Soviet Union, Khrushchev was humiliated and was seem soft and weak among the members of the party. This is what finally brought him down and his attempt for 'The Thaw' of the Cold War. In 1964 the central committee voted for the resignation of Khrushchev. Once he was removed, he disappeared from the political scene and Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin would take power.
Khrushchev's failure was not only his controversial and contradictory policies, but the lack of confidence among his colleagues. In the brief period that Khrushchev was in power he did leave an important mark in Soviet politics. Stalinist ideas were abolished and many of Lenin's resurrected. He 'strongly favored increased, though controlled, popular participation.' Some say that he was in essence a populist. The factors mention above are the cause of his failure to fully bring about the Thaw of the Cold War. Yet, it was not all his fault, but also the paranoia of the West and the competition for world power.
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