Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pieced together from reports in the non-Russian Communist press and triangulated by a few facts gleaned by Westerners in Moscow, the story of Nikita Khrushchev's fall is still far from complete. Contradictions abound, and the motivation of persons leaking details is obviously suspect. But the account, as it stands so far, of that hard day's night in which Nikita met his undoing rings true in terms of his familiar personality. He evidently went down as he came up-swinging...
Bare Majority. Two weeks ago, as Khrushchev relaxed in the fall sun at his Black Sea villa, a call went out from Moscow for a secret meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. The roundup call no doubt originated in the party Presidium, which Nikita unwittingly believed was heavily in his favor (he had hand-picked seven of its eleven other members). In from semi-exile flew such opponents of Khrushchev as New Delhi-based Ambassador Ivan Benekditov. Central Committee members known to be strong for Nikita were not called, among them Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington. Khrushchev was confidently...
...Voshkod orbited, the party Presidium was in nonstop session-though Nikita knew nothing about it. Ideologist Mikhail Suslov was the major participant, arguing that Khrushchev had outlived his usefulness. A vote was taken, and all were against Nikita. The question was then carried to the full Central Committee, where a majority-but a bare one, some reports indicating as little as one vote-decided against him. Thus the coup makers had precluded the fate of the 1957 "antiparty group," which had mustered a party Presidium majority against Khrushchev only to lose when the vote came in the Central Committee. Dmitry...
Across the River. Ustinov arrived on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 13, as Khrushchev was talking with French Atomic Science Minister Gaston Palewski. The emissary demanded that Khrushchev return immediately to Moscow for the special meeting of the Presidium. Deeply upset, Khrushchev left Palewski with the words: "I have to go to the cosmonauts immediately." That explanation was at least partly true. After only 16 orbits, the Voshkod had returned to earth, possibly because of a mechanical failure but perhaps on order from the Presidium, which presumably did not want the spacecraft, with all its publicity potential, circling overhead while...
...sunset, Khrushchev and Ustinov landed at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, where a ZIL limousine waited. The long black car whipped across the Lenin Hills, along Kremlevskaya Quai, where lights glittered on the Moskva River...