Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reaction was strongest among West European Communists. First to speak out were the French, who only a week before Khrushchev's fall had declared their formal independence from Moscow control; they were obviously determined to keep that independence. The French demanded "fuller information and necessary explanations," and Party Boss Waldeck Rochet announced that he would send a delegation to Moscow to get the answers...
...which these changes at the top of the Soviet Party occurred leaves us concerned and critical." Fearful that the new Russian leaders might get overly tough with the West, and thus spoil his party's chances in Italy's nationwide local elections next month, Longo harped on Khrushchev's "peaceful coexistence" line and desperately reminded Italians that his predecessor, Palmiro Togliatti, had demanded "greater freedom of expression" for Communists. To take the edge off the French initiative, Longo decided to send two fact-finding missions to Moscow...
Neither Brezhnev nor Kosygin can as yet be certain of his job, and behind each, among the other oligarchs, stand any number of potential replacements. One major contender is gone-ailing Frol Kozlov, 56, whose name suddenly disappeared along with Khrushchev's from official pronouncements. President Anastas Mikoyan, 68, though shunted into the role of greeter last week, is still the man with the best balance in the Soviet Union, having survived every change of leadership since the fall of the Czar...
Right behind him is Mikhail Suslov, 61, whose icy, opportunistic command of ideology had seen him through Stalin and Khrushchev and firmly into the new era. But Mikoyan may be too old and Suslov too frail (he suffers from a chronic kidney ailment) to rate much of a chance among the hustlers in the Soviet Union today. Not so Nikolai Podgorny, 61, a hog-healthy Ukrainian protege of Khrushchev's who managed many of his most delicate foreign and agricultural projects, and Dmitry Polyansky, at 46 the "baby" of the Presidium but one of its canniest opportunists...
...these men would ultimately be willing to do to Brezhnev or Kosygin what they had done only a week before to Khrushchev...