Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nikita's Sins. The catalogue, which was evidently compiled by Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, accused Khrushchev of 29 sins, immoral, illegal, or fatheaded. Basically it corroborated earlier reports that Nikita's underlings could no longer stomach his loutish, highhanded ways or condone his persistent bungling of agricultural, ideological and foreign policies. But there were some intriguing elaborations, such as charges that he tried to make Wife Nina chairman of the Union of Soviet Women, that he "antagonized intellectuals," and clung to uneconomical building plans (he insisted on five-story rather than twelve-story apartment houses, on underpasses rather than...
...Khrushchev's gravest error, in his successors' eyes, lay in conducting the Soviet-Red Chinese ideological dispute as if it were a barroom brawl. He was so busy argy-bargying with Peking that he completely failed to recognize China's accelerated scientific progress, thus let Mao Tse-tung gain valuable prestige by exploding his bomb without warning...
...their old, four-room apartment at No. 3 Granovsky Street, a section that compares unfavorably with, say, Manhattan's West Side around Amsterdam Avenue and 81st Street. But the social life should be interesting. Among other tenants officially housed in the building are two potentates purged by Khrushchev, former Premier Vyacheslav Molotov and Red Army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, as well as several comrades who gave K. the push, including Suslov and Kosygin...
Despite a glittering new job offer-deputy manager of Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, a party blat deep in Khrushchev's virgin lands-Aleksei decided to hang around. After all, Wife Rada still had her job as an editor of a Moscow scientific journal...
...obvious that Moscow's new leaders felt they could not immediately eliminate Khrushchev from the Moscow scene. His popularity in both the Communist world and the West would not permit such a move, even if the new regime had the stomach...