Word: khrushchevian
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Play the Theme. As the Khrushchevian bluster and bromide garnered newspaper space, the real climax was approaching. In Washington, President Eisenhower huddled with his State Department advisers and reworked his speech. U.S. diplomats sensed that Russia had made a fundamental error by taking on the U.N. itself. With that as a theme, the U.S. built its position: while the Communists were repudiating the U.N., the U.S. would uphold and strengthen it. This was likely to win support from the new African nations, for whom the only protected road to real independence, and the most important amphitheater for their own thoughts...
Greece and The Netherlands to accept Molotov as Soviet ambassador, some Soviet experts said that Khrushchev was treating his old foe gently just to point up the contrast between Khrushchevian "humanitarianism" and the bad old Stalin days, when politicians usually lost their lives along with their jobs. Others speculated that it made Nikita nervous to have Molotov in a post so near Red China; in the ideological dispute now raging between Russia and China, long-time "hardliner" Molotov would presumably share Peking's view that Khrushchev is dangerously soft on capitalism...