Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London this week, is described by Medvedev as a Festschrift (German for a written homage). In part, it is a vivid account of an artist who has struggled to write and publish under extraordinarily hazardous conditions. Ten Years is also a detailed analysis of Soviet cultural life from Nikita Khrushchev's brief era of liberalization in 1962 (when One Day was published in the Soviet Union) down through the repressive climate of the present...
Eventually that book became an increasingly intolerable burden to the new leadership of the Communist Party. In the shifts of party policy that followed Khrushchev's downfall, mere mention of any crimes committed in the Stalinist era was anathema. Friends of Solzhenitsyn who tried to defend his subsequent anti-Stalinist books (including The Cancer Ward and The First Circle) were condemned by the official press, and many lost their jobs. Solzhenitsyn himself was ousted from the Soviet Writers Union...
...since Nikita Khrushchev emerged as top man in the Kremlin had the Politburo received such a shakeup. In the most confident and decisive political move of his eight years as head of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev last week eased out two enemies from the ruling Politburo and replaced them with four powerful and seemingly loyal allies...
...unveiling date of May 29, speedy coordination between the City and the Kennedy Corporation over the design is necessary. Without this planning, the Kennedy Library will be just a collection of fond trivia -- a valentine from Caroline, a coconut shell from PT 109, an ivory model boat from Nikita Khrushchev -- within a Harvard Square disrupted by tourists clicking their Instamatics...
John Kennedy had a good thought back in 1961 when things were a little tougher with the Communists. He came back from his meeting in Vienna with Nikita Khrushchev, and he talked at length with his diplomatic officers, even with the press. At one of these meetings, after telling about the bitter confrontation between himself and Khrushchev, he paused and asked his audience, "If we put this out, will it jeopardize future relations with the Soviet Union? Does Khrushchev understand how democracies work?" Kennedy then answered his own question. "If he doesn't, maybe it is time he learned...