Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier Khrushchev evidently thought so too, and was not quite as enthusiastic about the prospect as Hayward and Labedz. Several days after the Times story appeared Khrushchev visited an exhibition of paintings and sculpture arranged by the Moscow branch of the Union of Soviet Artists. The Premier's reaction to some of the abstract art on display was someting less than charitable, and a day later Pravda re-asserted in an editorial the momentarily forgotten priciples of social realism...
...Khrushchev's Ultimatum...
...only the beginning. On December 17 Khrushchev and other top Party officers met with "representatives of literature and arts" to remind them of the Party's determination to continue to define the tasks and direction of artistic creation." Last week the Kremlin was the scene of another such meeting, and press reports said "Mr. Khrushchev's words were widely regarded as an ultimatum to writers, painters, composers and other artists who had challenged the authority of the Communist Party in cultural affairs...
Thus giving permission to publish One Day must be seen as a purely political decision by the regime. First of all the novel serves the cause of anti-Stalinism, and concomitantly the cause of Stalin's denunciator Khrushchev. As the editor of Novy Mir wrote in a preface to the original publication, "Only by going into its consequences fully, courageously, and truthfully can we guarantee a complete and irrevocable break with all those things that cast a shadow over the past...
...golden boys sometimes overstep the bounds, and when they do the image of dissent is suddenly revealed for what it is. Last week Khrushchev denounced the elderly Ehrenburg for pleading for co-existence between socialist realism and Western art forms. "Whoever preaches the idea of peaceful coexistence of ideologies slides down to the positions of anticommunism" Krushchev declared, and added that Ehrenburg had committed a "gross ideological error...