Word: crankshaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English reporter Edward Crankshaw of The Observer learned about the Sino-Soviet jockeying of 1957 and 1958 from "Eastern European contacts." His account, on which Rendell's theories are based, is in his book Moscow and Peking...
...basis of such barely visible clues, weary Kremlinologists stake their reputations. One of the best of the bunch, Britain's Edward Crankshaw, inspired one theory of Nikita's future with a frontpage story in London's Observer declaring that aging Khrushchev might announce his retirement "within two years" at the coming May 28 meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Who told him? "Well-informed Soviet sources," of course...
...should be believed. From Jeremy Wolfenden, London Daily Telegraph correspondent in Moscow, came word that "Russian sources decisively reject the idea that Mr. Khrushchev will retire either from the premiership or the secretaryship of the party." Merle Fainsod, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, said Crankshaw "is spinning things out rather thin." William Griffith, research associate on Communist affairs at M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies, declared, "I would not say that the weight of evidence is on Crankshaw's side." But just in case it was, Griffith added: "You can argue either way; either Khrushchev...
...having a demoralizing effect on the Communist world. But in one respect, it is to Khrushchev's advantage: it reinforces the idea in the West that he is not a bad fellow compared to the Stalinists, and it even leads such Soviet experts as Britain's Edward Crankshaw to suggest that Mr. K.'s Russia is slowly moving toward "a species of democracy...