Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After the Russians captured Gary Powers and his wrecked U-2 plane in 1960, skillful Soviet dribbling of information led the U.S. from clumsy denial of the aerial surveillance to an awkward admission by President Eisenhower. As a result, Ike's summit with Khrushchev fell through; Moscow parlayed the incident into a propaganda spectacular by putting Powers on public trial. The U.S. called off further U-2 flights over Russia as a concession to disapproving opinions, although all major powers would use the same kind of airborne espionage if they had the means, and could get away with...
...Pigs, the Kennedy Administration again faced the problem of the Sovietization of Cuba, this time in infinitely more dangerous circumstances. Having learned a lesson about opinion, Kennedy did not hesitate to go to the brink to get the Russian missiles out of Cuba; but he gave Khrushchev a face-saving exit through the U.N. decompression chamber. The onlooking world, though nervous, on the whole approved the U.S. action. Kennedy passed up the opportunity of invading Cuba and destroying the Castro regime-not primarily because of world opinion but because of his calculation of the risks...
When Nikita Khrushchev opened the gates of Stalin's concentration camps and set free hordes of political prisoners, he proudly boasted that "only lunatics" could object to life in Russia. So it seemed only logical for Nikita to deal with the intellectual critics of his own regime by locking them up not in harsh prisons-but in lunatic asylums. As men in white coats largely replaced the policemen, hundreds of writers, artists and other outspoken objectors to Communism vanished from the Moscow scene, to reappear in psychiatric hospitals as "mental cases...
...writer, is being treated in Ward 7 of a large Moscow mental hospital for the anti-state offense of smuggling manuscripts to the West. Tarsis himself spent six months in Kashchenko psychiatric hospital in 1962 and 1963 for sending The Bluebottle, a novel portraying the plight of intellectuals in Khrushchev's Russia, to a British publisher via a tourist. When he was released, Tarsis, now 59, went right to work on the story of his remarkable experience. Ward 7, which Tarsis insisted on having published under his real name, is the result...
Nearly as remarkable as Tarsis' courage is the fact that the author apparently has gone unpunished for his latest literary sin; at last report, he was living with his wife and daughter in a Moscow flat-and continuing to write. A further sign of the post-Khrushchev leadership's gentler treatment of artists and writers was the scheduled departure for Italy last week of controversial Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, who plans a month's poetry-reading tour. It was the first time he had been allowed outside the Soviet Union since 1963, when he roamed through France...