Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years just before-and after the death of Joseph Stalin. It was a time of Byzantine intrigues, some engineered by the old dictator, others conceived and carried out behind his back. It was a time of brutal purges and bitter battles within the Kremlin hierarchy that led to Nikita Khrushchev's startling "destalinization" speech at the 20th Party Congress in 1956. This week the former Soviet Premier, who emerged from those years as the Kremlin's new boss, provides the only first-person account of those fateful struggles ever recorded. His reminiscences, excerpted from the forthcoming book, Khrushchev...
...reservations, Salisbury did not rule out the authenticity of the reminiscences. Indeed, he speculated that "one link" in the book's appearance might be Khrushchev's son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei, a former editor of the government newspaper Izvestia. The same hunch appeared in a story by the Times's Moscow correspondent, Bernard Gwertzman: "It is not ruled out that some member of his family or a close friend had been taking notes of discussions with him or had tape recordings, and arranged to smuggle them...
Possible Boswells. The Khrushchev family abounds with possible Boswells. Adzhubei's wife Rada, 40, one of Khrushchev's four daughters, has worked as deputy editor of the monthly Science and Life. Granddaughter Yulia, whose father Leonid, the elder Khrushchev son, was killed during World War II, studied journalism at Moscow University and has worked for Trud, the trade union newspaper. Her husband Lev, who died in July, was an editor of the news agency Novosti and of the English-language magazine Soviet Weekly. With that many journalists in the Khrushchev household, it would not be surprising...
...convict the authors of anti-Soviet propaganda. British Journalist Louis Herren speculated that any KGB involvement might reflect a split between the organization's hard-liners and a more moderate faction that is anxious to counter the neo-Stalinist tendencies of the present leadership with Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist views...
According to sources quoted in both the Post and the Times, Khrushchev was unaware that any version of his reminiscences had reached the West when LIFE announced publication. Several days later, the informants said, he received a telephone call from Arvid Pelshe, a Politburo member and chairman of the Party Control Commission, which runs checks on party members. "We have business with you," he said. Though ailing, Khrushchev was picked up at his dacha and driven to the Kremlin, where he was confronted with the news of publication and an already prepared statement of denial. Khrushchev, according to the reports...