Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understandable. Under Stalin, Georgia was more pampered than any other Soviet republic. It received disproportionately large allocations for farms, dams and fac tories, was permitted to preserve a good deal of private initiative at a time when the rest of Russia was being brutally forced into collectivization. After Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956, all of that changed. Georgians were dropped from power in Mos cow, and Khrushchev even tore up a few of Georgia's vineyards, replanting them with his favorite crop, corn...
...classic brag designed to show that he alone dictated Soviet foreign policy, Nikita Khrushchev once declared: "When I tell Gromyko to take off his pants and sit on a cake of ice, he does it." Last week, after sitting on the ice cake through nearly three years of steadily worsening U.S. -Soviet relations, it looked as if Khrushchev's successors may have at last told Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to get off and hitch up. With the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. already moving toward the conclusion of a New York-to-Moscow air pact and an outer-space treaty...
...ambassador to Moscow from 1957 to 1962, Thompson was able to work more closely with Soviet leaders than any other postwar U.S. envoy. His firsthand knowledge of Nikita Khrushchev's mind helped Thompson to divine Moscow's reactions throughout the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. He has been the State Department's chief resident negotiator with the Russians ever since...
What the three disparate raises reflect in common is the new economics, Soviet style, which is slowly reshaping the Russian way of business. Based on the ideas of realistic-minded economists like Kharkov's Evsei Liberman, the post-Khrushchev leadership of Brezhnev and Kosygin during 24 months in power has been nudging the Soviet economy toward a more rational system. One of its facets, as the shorter-skirted models displayed, was summed up by the fashion editor of the Ministry of Culture's newspaper: "The time has come when the customer can choose, order, indulge in fantasy...
...unusual demonstration, 10,000 Jews also celebrated the festival in the streets of Moscow, an additional sign that since Khrushchev's fall restrictions against Jewish religious activities have been somewhat relaxed in the Soviet Union...