Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five experts on Russian affairs discussed the fall of Nikita Khrushchev at Boylston Hall yesterday, and reached a general agreement that the change in Soviet leadership bodes no immediate ill for U.S.-Russian relations...
...suffering abroad. The revolutionaries are turning to the Chinese, the mixed-economy nations are on the whole sticking with the West, and the neutralists spurn the Russians as well as the Americans. Caught between the advances of a more revolutionary Communism and the responsibilities of nuclear power leadership, Premier Khrushchev was almost inevitably damned for what he did do, and damned for what he didn...
Finally, of course, the Premier was getting old. He was spending less time with his hands on the controls and placing more faith in his lieutenants. Leonid I. Brezhnev owed his entire career to Khrushchev; Aleksei N. Kosygin owed him the second chance so rarely granted in Soviet political life. One day, they seem to have decided that they had sufficient support to oust the old man vacationing at his Black Sea resort. They...
...would be logical for the new leaders to initiate exploratory talks with China to see if the ideological rift can be healed. Yet this brings up an obvious point--the new Soviet rulers face precisely the same problems that Khrushchev faced. Making up with Communist China while continuing a policy of detente with the West will not get any easier. But the alternative they face remains the same: that of nuclear disaster...
...succession reaffirms the fundamental skepticism with which every student of Soviet affairs at Harvard should begin: no matter what rules you make for patterns of Soviet conduct, the Russians will eventually break them. Khrushchev's downfall renews the humility with which even the best scholars have learned to approach predictions about the gigantic power on the other side of the world...