Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there any truth to the rumor that Khrushchev resigned so that he would be free to run for the U.S. Senate from New York...
Although the overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev and explosion of a nuclear device by the Communist Chinese were undoubtedly the sort of events that would work toward the election of Lyndon Johnson, if only because he is an incumbent President and therefore more experienced, Barry took to the attack anyway...
...somewhat left-handed compliment, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant described Russia's new bosses as "competent and unpretentious." So far, at least, they have plenty to be unpretentious about. The start of their rule was not auspicious. Nikita Khrushchev was deposed and out of sight, but his invisible presence still badly cramped the style of the new Moscow team. When Premier Aleksei Kosygin and his teammate Leonid Brezhnev, new head of the Communist Party, made their first joint public appearance in Red Square to hail Russia's three most recent cosmonauts, applause from the onlookers was markedly listless...
There was plenty of feedback, particularly from Communist leaders outside Russia. They should be accustomed to the Communist way of changing rulers, but they reacted with puzzlement, anger, even outrage. The fact was ironic, for in large measure Khrushchev had been felled because his policies had lately splintered the Communist movement, and his removal was obviously designed to help reunite the comrades. But for the present, at least, international Communism seemed even more badly split than before, and just as cockily independent of Moscow. The relative national autonomy won by the various parties during the Khrushchev era could probably never...
Taken Aback. To date, Moscow has given no account of exactly what happened to Khrushchev and why-forcing not only the West but also other Communist parties to work out the puzzle as best they could (see following story). The Soviet press kept stating the new regime's case against Khrushchev in the usual half-veiled style; its gist was that he had been highhanded and had refused to take advice. But the criticism sounded a little more restrained, with the new regime presumably taken aback by the protests...