Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nikita Khrushchev, since he may never again be eligible...
Before the Sino-Soviet split became public, Peking used little Albania as a sort of ventriloquist's dummy. Albania's fiercely anti-Khrushchev rulers said all the nasty things about Moscow that the Chinese obviously wanted to say themselves. Since Nikita Khrushchev's ouster amid signs of a Russian-Chinese thaw, the Communist world-and its observers in the West-have wondered whether the Albanian line might soften. Last week came the answer...
...wasted effort. Albania flexed its puny muscles with an 85-minute parade through Tirana's normally trafficless streets, and the military display included a few rockets, probably donated by Red China. Albanian Party Boss Enver Hoxha ranted his way through a three-hour speech hailing the removal of Khrushchev but blasting the new Soviet leadership for its failure to rehabilitate Stalin, who, said Hoxha, was a great Marxist-Leninist even though "he may have committed some small errors." Hoxha sneered that the new Soviet leaders "would like to have us Albanians go to Moscow and bow before them because...
...Khrushchev said tut-tut to all that, and Rozhdestvensky rather readily switched his blank-verse sermonizing from anti-Stalinism to anti-Americanism. Imagining himself a U.S. Indian in wild West days, he asked...
...experiment had not yet had time to prove itself. By now it has been given plenty of time-and has accomplished little or nothing. In the municipal elections, all the tides were supposed to be running against the Reds: Italy's longtime Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti was dead; Khrushchev was out; and for the first time since the death of Pope John, Italy's Roman Catholic bishops were actively antiCommunist...