This academic article focuses on Soviet history After the death of Joseph Stalin or the steel man who ruled the country cruel and brutal for a long time. The event of the contention of power It happened to require a chair for the post of secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or the Supreme Leader. At that time, the world was in tensions with the United States with completely different political ideologies. The tenure of the title was Lavrentiy Beria and Nikita Khrushchev, who both saw differently. Beria wanted a good relationship with the United States during the Cold War. But Khrushchev saw the opposite. The contention for power also took place and caused a change in the thinking of the Russian citizens of Stalin.

Keywords: Power contention, Stalin, The United States of America, Cold War