Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...banner and chant they proclaimed their purpose: "Sweep the great renegade of the working class onto the garbage heap!" and "Sweep the Khrushchev of China into the dustbin of history!" The man so described by these sanitation-minded youngsters, who also referred to him as "a paper tiger," the "big shot" and the "main root of revisionism," was Red China's President Liu Shao-chi, the chief foe of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The renewed attacks on Liu showed that Mao and his followers have not yet succeeded in winning the day; they...
...major factor is the altered character of the Communist challenge. By every indicator, Russia's two-headed leadership is cautious and conservative, having learned from the ignominious failure of Khrushchev's scary brinkmanship in Cuba. The result has been warily negotiated agreements with the U.S. on the peaceful use of outer space, reciprocal establishment of consulates, and the basis for a treaty restricting the spread of nuclear weapons. Equally significant, Russia and the East European Communist regimes have begun to abandon "command" economics. While certainly not decreeing instant free enterprise, they are taking into account the desires...
...took part in the World War II defense of Stalingrad, commanded the advance through Rumania and Hungary to Vienna, and finally Russia's "one-week war" against Japan. As a Communist, he was the perfect, unquestioning Party member, who survived all purges, obediently reined in the army when Khrushchev opted for fewer guns and more butter, then swiftly put himself behind the new leaders when Khrushchev was ousted−all of which earned him the Kremlin's highest honors...
Inside the polling station at Moscow's Secondary School No. 70, the face was familiar and the voting proctors did not demand the customary identification papers. Nilcita Khrushchev, 72, looking considerably older and thinner, quietly folded his ballot and dropped it into the urn, casting his meaningless vote for his Moscow district's unopposed candidate for the Supreme Soviet, or Parliament. The candidate's name: Alexei Kosygin, the fellow who, with Leonid Brezhnev, put Khrushchev out of a job two years ago. It was a rare public appearance for Nikita Sergeevich, and a crowd of nearly...
...Svetlana could well shed much light on shrouded facets of Soviet political history. She was just a young girl when Stalin launched his bitter purge of the 1930s. Even after Stalin's death she was close to the men who ran the Kremlin-until the mid-1950s, when Khrushchev suddenly launched his destalinization program. It was possibly the Soviet's destalinization, in fact, that prompted Svetlana to defect. No one, of course, could be sure. Like almost everything connected with the Stalin name, her defection remained a great mystery...