Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brezhnev inherited many problems from his rambunctious, buccaneering predecessor, Nikita Khrushchev-icy relations with the West, a desire for more freedom in the Soviet satellite states of Eastern Europe, an economy retarded by the chaotic situation in agriculture brought about by Khrushchev's constant tinkering...
Brezhnev did not make the mistake of moving all the way toward one-man power, as Khrushchev did during his last days. Therefore, responsibility for success or failure could be shared with other members of the Politburo. Brezhnev-praised by Richard Nixon more than once as the shrewdest of shrewd politicians-accomplished "collegia!" rule with astonishing success. He has nonetheless had mixed results in foreign policy, his principal achievement having been to convince his colleagues that detente with the West is desirable and necessary. The thriving state of Communist parties in Italy, France and elsewhere is taken by Moscow...
...early 1960s, Lysenko found a new patron in Nikita Khrushchev, who was desperately eager to overtake American agriculture. But Lysenko's star was already dimming. From the West came word of spectacular new advances in genetics. Lysenko's reputation was also undermined by Soviet geneticist Zhores Medvedev's samizdat (underground book) The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, which documented Lysenko's falsification of data and character assassination. Finally, when Khrushchev fell -in part because of his disastrous farm policies-so did Lysenko. The onetime czar of Soviet agriculture spent his declining years at a research...
Improved Relations. This week, Brezhnev carries his wooing of East European leaders to Bucharest. It will be the first official visit to Rumania by the Soviet leader since he succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as party boss twelve years ago. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu has long offended Moscow by his frequent and often strident proclamations of his regime's independence from the Soviets. In recent months, however, relations between Rumania and the U.S.S.R. have somewhat improved, as is indicated by the Brezhnev visit. Also significant is the fact that Ceausescu has allowed a Warsaw Pact summit meeting to convene in Bucharest...
...lineup of leaders at Mao's mourning. He has also impressed foreign observers with his cool, adept handling of both the recent earthquakes and the obsequies for Mao. But will he consolidate his power, as Leonid Brezhnev did in the Soviet Union after the ouster of Khrushchev? Or will he, like Georgi Malenkov after the death of Stalin, eventually be relegated to obscurity? Many observers believe that he might endure, given the apparent strength of the moderates in China today. But the first indications of Hua's future may come out of the plenum of the Tenth Party...