Word: khrushchev
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...that surrounded Mao's Middle Kingdom. By contrast there is not nearly so much for Nixon to discover in the way of fresh sights and sounds in Russia, a country he has visited four times before-most notably in 1959, when he held his celebrated debate with Nikita Khrushchev in a Moscow exhibition hall. But this week's summit meeting of the President and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev has far greater potential consequences than Nixon's conversations with Mao and Chou Enlai...
Perhaps most important, the Moscow summit comes at a time when the changed relationship between the two superpowers cries out for discussion and debate. When John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev met in the last full-fledged summit at Vienna in 1961, the U.S. still possessed an overwhelming edge in nuclear might. In a costly arms buildup, the Soviet Union has achieved parity in weaponry, a fact that naturally worries American military experts but nonetheless does have one positive aspect...
WHEN Leonid Brezhnev replaced Nikita Khrushchev in Russia's top job eight years ago, Kremlinologists tended to agree that the obscure new First Secretary of the Communist Party was just another faceless nullity in the gray mass of Soviet bureaucrats. They were wrong, of course. At 65 the Soviet leader has emerged as a shrewd, robust, forceful and even dashing personality, with a love of fast cars and a zest for life. On the same stage with him, other Politburo members almost seem like part of the furniture...
After the dictator's death, Brezhnev owed his advancement to Khrushchev, who had recognized his abilities and loyalty in the Ukraine. Khrushchev entrusted his protégé with supervision of his vast "Virgin Lands" agricultural scheme and later made him a full Presidium member and gave him the prestigious but honorific title of Chief of State. Finally, Khrushchev gave him power second only to his own in the party. Thus entrenched, and now a master of Kremlin power politics, Brezhnev became a leading member in the plot to oust his patron. Within hours of Khrushchev's fall...
...greater degree than in most other countries, Soviet foreign policy aims arise from domestic needs. One reason for Nikita Khrushchev's fall from power was his boundless, and groundless, belief in the Soviet ability to overtake the U.S. economically. By contrast, Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and other party leaders are aware that their country is falling ever farther behind the West in technology. The Soviet leaders realize that they need Western technology and long-term credit to help overcome their country's backwardness and to open up the rich petroleum and other mineral deposits in Siberia. Russia...