Death, Succession, and Revelation
"Although [Stalin] no longer lived physically, he still lived, and would continue to live...The remaining four decades of Soviet history would be dominated by one overriding problem: How to bury Stalin. All three of his principal successors as General Secretary—Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev—were primarily concerned with the problems engendered by his legacy."
-Martin Malia, American historian