# What reforms were enacted in the USSR after Stalin died

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After Stalin died what all reforms were enacted by people like Beria or Khrushchev? My understanding is Beria:

Made torture illegal (which probably wasn’t listened to)  
Wrote off the ‘doctor’s plot’ as a farce  
released over a million political prisoners

While Khrushchev raised the rations of people in slave labor camps, I think up to 1200 calories a day or so. He also cut the gulag population from 13 million to 5 million.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destalinization](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destalinization)

What other reforms were enacted?