Enver HoxhaStalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in 1953, or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the Soviet Union in 1956. However, in one countryAlbaniaStalinism survived virtually unscathed until 1990. The regime that the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha led from the time of the communist takeover in 1944 until his death in 1985, and that continued unabated