Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev repeats Lenin's confident prediction, unfulfilled in 40 decades of imminent capitalist collapse. The program reports the "increasing proletarization in capitalist society," blandly and blindly ignoring the fact that since Lenin's day, the exact opposite has happened. Indeed, the document is so frequently divorced from reality and lurches so inconsistently from ethics to history, pedagogy to sociology, that Swiss Soviet Expert Ernst Kux concludes: "Khrushchev's program reveals the decline of Soviet ideology and its inability to come to grips with the problems of our time...
...Khrushchev's "romanticism," as some Western experts label his repeated rejection of fact, is not necessarily a source of comfort for the West. Abroad, should it lead Khrushchev to believe his own propaganda about capitalist weakness, it could lead to fatal miscalculation and war. And at home, so far, it has not noticeably weakened his grip. Though Khrushchev has dismantled much of Stalin's police state, he has shrewdly rebuilt the Communist Party-demoralized under Stalin-as Russia's dominant force. In fact, the Khrushchev Code almost lyrically extols the party and promises that even in that...
This is perhaps the most impressive and chilling achievement that Khrushchev can point out to any critics among the comrade delegates at the 22nd Congress who may not be moved by his vision of a "mighty unifying thunderstorm marking the springtime of mankind...
...most far-reaching was the 8th (1919), which endorsed the Comintern as the export agency for worldwide Communist revolution, and adopted Lenin's creed that wars with capitalist states are "fatalistically inevitable." Even more dramatic was the 2Oth in 1956 at which Khrushchev 1) reversed Lenin by announcing that peaceful coexistence had become a fundamental principle of Soviet policy, and 2) in a six-hour, closed-session speech reviled Stalin as a "brutal, despotic" merchant of "moral and physical annihilation...
...rehearsing his invective for the big Party Congress, Nikita Khrushchev chose U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith as target for Moscow's crudest and weirdest verbal blockbuster of the week. What angered the Russian was Republican Smith's Sept. 21 Senate speech chiding Democrat John F. Kennedy for "turning to emphasis on conventional weapons" when the U.S. needs to increase its nuclear superiority over Russia. Khrushchev's reply went to Britain's former Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell and 58 other Labor M.P.s who had urged Russia to stop nuclear testing...