What influenced Nikita Khrushchev to develop liberal reforms in Soviet Russia?

by bards2828

Nikita Krushchev was an advocate for many of Stalin's policies during his reign. However, he then became the most important figure for Russian liberalization. What possibly influenced him to do so?

edit: Any sources that could help me further investigate this question?

JimmySchaps

Krushchev was not an advocate for Stalin's policies, he denounced Stalin shortly after taking power. His domestic policy of his tenure is referred to as Destalinization. It was a process that included amnesty for prisoners, the end of forced labor in the gulags, the liberalizing of the institutionalized art censorship (however not as much a Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika). He also most famously removed Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb.