Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although often derided by party compatriots as a mediocrity, Bulganin had a shrewd instinct for survival. In 1953 he joined the Presidium plot to arrest the hated secret police chief Lavrenty Beria, and two years later he backed Nikita Khrushchev's successful attempt to oust Georgi Malenkov as Premier. As a reward, Bulganin was given Malenkov'sjob...
Bulganin played a key role in softening the style of Kremlin leadership. As Premier, he launched "cocktail co-existence," giving numerous receptions for diplomats and journalists in Moscow at which he chatted affably and insisted that all the Soviet Union desired was a reduction of world tensions. Bulganin and Khrushchev also carried this message to foreign capitals, where the two bulky leaders were quickly dubbed the "B. & K. road show...
...however, Bulganin's survival instinct failed; he sided with Malenkov and others in the so-called "antiparty" plot to remove Khrushchev as First Secretary of the party. The coup failed, and Khrushchev gradually eased Bulganin from office; he drifted from job to job until retiring...
After Nikita Khrushchev's 1962 decision to let One Day be published in order to further the Premier's destalinization policies, Solzhenitsyn's fortunes depended on Khrushchev's. A year after his fall, the secret police raided two Moscow apartments where Solzhenitsyn's archives, including copies of The First Circle, were hidden. "I was so depressed," he writes about learning of his exposure, "that I contemplated suicide, for the first and, I hope, the last time in my life." After that raid, Solzhenitsyn began microfilming all his work and arranging for its underground transmission abroad...
...after he joined the CIA remain secret. The only people who know what he really did are his superiors and those who worked with him. One exploit that can be told came early hi 1956. In collaboration with a friendly intelligence service, his unit acquired a copy of Nikita Khrushchev's famed denunciation of Stalin to the 20th Party Congress. Angleton and his lieutenants also developed the evidence that helped lead the FBI in 1957 to the KGB agent Colonel Rudolf Abel, who had operated since 1948 from an obscure photographer's shop in Brooklyn. The numbers...