Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slight Doze. With Communism thus briskly bounding forward in all directions all at once, it was curious that Khrushchev saw almost as many enemies at home as abroad. Nearly a decade after Stalin's death, and years after Khrushchev presumably eliminated the last remaining Stalinists from positions of power, he found it necessary lengthily to repeat his past criticism of the "personality cult" and all the attendant evils of the Stalin era. Then Khrushchev proceeded to fill in some details of his fight with members of what he called the "antiparty" group, who had "violently opposed" his critique...
...then apologized." The delegates applauded, and aging 80-year-old Voroshilov, sitting as an obscure member of the 41-man Congress Presidium, dutifully joined in by clapping his hands at his own condemnation. Nikita then went on to denounce Nikolai Bulganin, who was straightman in the touring company of Khrushchev and Bulganin until his 1958 demotion. Bulganin, in the audience as a delegate, seemed to wake from a slight doze at the mention of his name and made a few notes. The other anti-party villains-Molotov (relatively safe in Vienna), Kaganovich, Malenkov, Pervukhin, Saburov and Shepilov -seemed like candidates...
...once, Khrushchev switched his attack to the smallest and least important of Red countries-Albania (see map). He complained that the Albanian Communist Party had remained Stalinist and added darkly: "We cannot make a concession on that fundamental point, either to the Albanian leaders-or to anyone else...
Brother Countries. In the devious rhetoric of Communism, Khrushchev was speaking plainly enough. His blasts against the "antiparty" group, which has long since been put out of action, and against little Albania were really aimed at Red China. The presumed differences: Peking's familiar "Stalinist" demands for more militancy against the West and less talk of peaceful coexistence, and its striving for Chinese pre-eminence over Moscow in Asian affairs. A sign of Russian worry over Red China's ambition came last week in one of those veiled moves that can have considerable significance in the Communist world...
...that Red China was a friend of the Soviet Union and of "all other countries in the Socialist camp, which extends from North Korea to East Germany, and from North Viet Nam to Albania." A scattering of applause was swiftly silenced when the nearly 5,000 delegates saw that Khrushchev and the other members of the Party Presidium were sitting motionless...