Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friendship & Pride. Kim saw his chance with the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev. Peking's resources were too thinly spread for Kim to count on Chinese help, but Russia's new leaders wanted to revive friendships in Asia that Khrushchev had ended. Pyongyang publications soon began soft-pedaling attacks on Moscow's "revisionism," and when Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin visited Kim last February, the stage was set for rapprochement. Soviet aid-cut off in 1963 at the height of North Korea's polemics-was resumed. Under a military assistance pact signed last May, Russia will probably supply...
WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...
WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...
...number has dwindled to five, and one of these is shaky. Revue sold out to Quick last month after losing 26.5% of its advertising in the first half of 1965. Last March a badly slipping Revue published what purported to be a sensational interview with Nikita Khrushchev in retirement, but the interview was judged to be a phony. Last June, upon learning that Der Stern was about to run some striking photos of a developing embryo taken by Swedish Photographer Lennart Nilsson (that also ran in LIFE), Revue faked an embryo sequence of its own. It drew a blast from...
...regime, the 53-year-old Ukrainian wrote a novel, The Bluebottle, that contained an angry attack on the Soviet tyranny and a vigorous defense of human liberty; smuggled out of Russia, it was published in England late in 1962. The Kremlin reacted swiftly. On the assumption, officially expressed by Khrushchev, that anyone who dislikes life in the Soviet Union must be a "lu natic," Author Tarsis was committed to a mental hospital...