Word: khruschev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nikita Khruschev's latest financial gambit has won officially enthusiastic backing in Russia and has somewhat puzzled the staff of the Russian Research Center here. The Party's First Secretary has suggested that the Soviet Union suspend repayment of bonds worth 265 billion rubles (about $65 billion). Though a member for twenty years of the Russian Research Center has termed it "a breach of confidence unparalleled in Soviet economic history," the new moratorium will probably not change the Soviet economic system radically. For, coupled with his announcement April 8, Khruschev also anounced that for this twenty-year period the government...
History, Government and Economics professors disagreed last night--although not violently--about the significance of Nikita S. Khrushchev's revision of Karl Marx's thinking. Alexander Gerschenkron, professor of Economics, called the whole affair "downright un-Russian" while Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, professor of History, said that Khruschev's remarks "mark the logical culmination of recent tendencies in Soviet thinking...
...long wast to get his visa is the first plate. He first made an application in 1947, and had intermistenly renewed it afterwards. In February, 1954, he applied for a visa for the coming summer, best was once more unsuccessful. When he read last winter, however, that Nikita A. Khruschev, First Secretary of the Russian Communist Party, had told newspapermen he was surprised to hear that Americans were having difficulty in obtaining visas and would try to remedy that situation, Berman immediately cabled Khruschev, explaining the details of his own case and informing him of his previous application. Soon after...
Berman's advice to those who wish Russian visas now is simply to apply and hope. "It's just a matter of luck," he says, adding that a cable to Khruschev can't hurt...
...differences in the economic views of Malenkov and Khruschev were so slight," Eckstein said, "that we have no real reason to suspect that it was an economic difference which caused the shift in power, and not a personality or foreign policy difference. However, from the resignation it is clear that the Soviet leaders have realized that their agricultural problem is a very serious one." Some Russian experts believe that Malenkov's resignation may have been a cover-up by the government for tits ineffective agricultural policy, with Malenkov serving as a scapegoat...