Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours Monday afternoon, Nikita Khrushchev seemed dead. The Pacific Coast Stock Exchange reacted to the news with a flurry of activity and closed registering a loss. The White House announced tersely that the President was following the situation. Newspapers and television networks pressed their Moscow correspondents frantically for details...
...turned out, Khrushchev wasn't dead. But the old man is seventy, active, corpulent and subject to fits of peasant anger. He pushes hard with a heavy schedule of travel and speeches, and his forty-seven years in Soviet politics make Franklin Roosevelt's harrowing public years seem lush. The reports of the Soviet leader's death may be true next time, perhaps before the world situation has changed substantially. While the sensations of the mock death scene enacted this week remain fresh, it may be worth considering what a world without Khrushchev would be like...
What would the Soviet Union attempt in foreign affairs in the months after Khrushchev's death? Only one prediction is fairly safe: the leadership would seek to continue the detente with the West and make a show, for the moment, of unity with the Communist Chinese. This was the policy of the collegium in Russia from March 1953 into the summer months--in order to let the leaders concentrate on the power fight...
Slow Delivery. This bitter satire of Eastern Europe's consumer market is not just a product of imagination. Junketing through Hungary last week, Nikita Khrushchev seemed to dwell more on the muddles than on the marvels of the Communist economic system...
...chided aides, prodded local factory heads to do better, even publicly decried slow deliveries from the Soviet Union to other Red nations. Khrushchev knows whereof he speaks. The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe last week reported that the rate of economic growth in the Satellite nations has again slowed-and no wonder. Communist dominated Eastern Europe, where the laws of supply and demand are often in suspension, is a weird eonomic land of gluts in some places, shortages in others, and confusion almost everywhere...