Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floodlights, has long been politically concerned. As president of the Screen Actors Guild in the late '40s, he helped block a Communist attempt to take over Hollywood's trade unions. In 1959, when 20th Century-Fox laid on a feast for the visiting Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Reagan refused to attend...
After Stalin's death, Khrushchev relieved the papers' grey monotony by allowing more lively coverage and makeup. As editor of Izvestia, Khrushchev's son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei, introduced a degree of cautious criticism; he also went in for some mild sensationalism, such as reporting the activities of the Abominable Snowman...
Adzhubei lost his job along with Khrushchev, but the trend to more flexibility in the press was not reversed. Today's Russian bosses, Brezhnev and Kosygin, play down the cult of personality (though they do not provide as lively copy as did Khrushchev). While Stalin's name used to appear in boldface and was given prominent display in most news stories, the present leaders are apparently content to have their names occasionally omitted from copy-which does not mean they are about to be demoted or disappear. Since news coverage is no longer a sure...
...been that it exists only in the eye of the beholder-or at any rate, the holder of power. To fall from favor was to fall from sight-to become an "unperson," who, as far as official comment was concerned, might as well have never existed. But the post-Khrushchev leadership of Brezhnev and Kosygin seems determined to give Russians a more honest glimpse of some tarnished heroes of the past...
...Soviet intelligence; moreover, his security police "instead of fighting the real enemies of the state, were used for entirely different purposes"-meaning Stalin's personal reign of terror over his own citizens. Nor do Zhukov or Kuznetsov get off scot-free: Zhukov has not been cleared of what Khrushchev called his "Bonapartist" tendencies to put the army outside party control, nor has Kuznetsov been absolved of his temerity in opposing Khrushchev's emphasis on submarine over surface ships...