Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nikita Khrushchev was impressed and decided to give Libermanism a chance. One factory in Moscow and another in Gorky were put on the profit and free-market system on a trial basis six months ago. Not surprisingly, they demonstrated a vast improvement in efficiency over the old Marxist bureaucratic model. When Khrushchev was ousted, some Soviet experts suspected that his revisionist experiments with Libermanism were at least partly to blame. On the contrary, the new leadership moved quickly to make Libermanism a prime element of their domestic policy...
...line biography describing his rise to Chairman of the Council of Ministers and First Party Secretary. Even the fellow's inspirational quote on the back gave way to an anonymous poem praising party modesty. Thus, by having his birthday wiped from the state calendar, did Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev become an "unperson...
Decalendarizing was not the only demeaning treatment given the departed Khrushchev last week in Moscow. Word spread among book lovers that the first volume of the planned six-volume History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union would be withdrawn for a little updating. In case anyone wondered why Volume One (which deals with the period from 1883 to 1905) needed to be updated, they had only to recall that its preface made grand and glowing references to Khrushchev, one of which described him as the "true Leninist...
Colonnades and a Greek pediment make the front of the rambling country house look like a set from Gone With the Wind. And the old massa who lives there fits the movie title too: Nikita Khrushchev, still hale at 70 but "retired" to his rent-free government dacha outside Moscow on a pension of $330 a month. After weeks of conscientious sleuthing, U.P.I.'s Henry Shapiro reported other details. Wife Nina gets another $132, and a five-man staff and limousine are thrown in, courtesy of the current Soviet management, but Khrushchev rarely uses...
Sounds like Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak in nothing very much? It isn't. It's Aleksei Batalov and Tamara Lavrova in a fascinating new Russian film. Made in 1962, while Khrushchev was still in the Kremlin, Nine Days suggests more clearly than any previous Russian picture how far creeping liberalism has managed to advance in the last decade...