Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among Russia's European satellites, nationalism has also reasserted itself as it has in the West-and it gets stronger as fear of Khrushchev's Russia diminishes. That is why alliances on both sides are in a state of flux, and therein also lies one of the dangers to the West...
...more fundamental question is whether the Khrushchev line denotes only a temporary, tactical change in Communism or a more profound one. All Communists, no matter of what stripe, still share the aim of defeating capitalism; but this statement, while as true as ever, is no longer a sufficient analysis of the situation. Some of the metamorphoses that Communism has undergone may have begun as tactical moves which in effect make Communism more attractive, but may end up meaning more-for example, Yugoslavia's compromises with free enterprise, the Italian Communist Party's championship of the small businessman...
...results of Khrushchev's destalinization drive, which began in 1956, are still shaking the Communist world; "re-stalinization," a return to despotic control by Moscow, is not impossible, but could be accomplished only through violent upheaval. Thus the notion that the U.S. now deals with a totally new form of Communism is widely accepted. Among
...radio station in Cologne. This meant fresh copy from the telegraph office, and the late-shift operator dutifully bestirred himself to see what was coming in. The message he read jolted him down to his half soles. TODAY, LATE IN AFTERNOON, announced Telex No. 2, FIRST MINISTER OF U.S.S.R. KHRUSHCHEV DIED SURPRISINGLY AT 20:19 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME OF HEPHOCAPALYTIROSISES. The message was signed TASS/ASAHI BONN-an unusual signature apparently signifying that the information had come from Tass, the Russian news agency, and had been picked up by a Bonn correspondent for Tokyo's daily Asahi Shimbun. Within minutes...
...Nikita Khrushchev, of course, was not dead. Nor had Tass said he was. What, then, had happened...