Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of Moscow street sweepers appear to be women-and the older the better. Babushka seems to have only two choices: baby-sit with the grandchildren or help sweep the streets. The circumstances of this exclusively geriatric female occupation is not completely lost on the Russians, however. During the Khrushchev regime (remember him?), the following joke was current in Moscow: It was rumored Khrushchev had an argument with a woman member of the party Presidium. "I'll have you sweeping streets!" he threatened her. "You can't," came the cold reply. "I'm not old enough...
...Tvardovsky's greatest service to Russia and Russian literature was his discovery and support of the work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It was Tvardovsky, for example, who first brought One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (see SHOW BUSINESS) to the attention of Nikita Khrushchev. The Premier was so impressed by the novel that he ordered it to be published in Novy Mir in 1962. But in 1966 Solzhenitsyn's writings were banned and he was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union last November...
...important, the pipe-for-gas trade indicates that trade relations between Bonn and Moscow are less and less influenced by the cold war. Seven years ago, the Germans had arranged to sell pipe to the Soviet Union, but the deal was blocked by the NATO strategic-goods embargo. Nikita Khrushchev was so enraged that he thumped his fist on a table and roared: "Even pants buttons can be called strategic goods. How are soldiers to hold their pants up without buttons...
...late '50s and early '60s, after Nikita Khrushchev had rolled back Stalinism, it seemed that the time had come. The young poet Evgeny Evtushenko had just emerged as the public voice of the uneasy new freedom. His poem Babi Yar, a passionate denunciation of Soviet antiSemitism, read aloud to thousands of Russians, was becoming a symbol of popular outrage at past and present repression...
...Khrushchev's day, for example, Moscow predicted a 1970 output of as much as a trillion kilowatt hours of electricity; the goal was later reduced to 850 billion and last month was lowered again to 740 billion. Output per man-hour, which Khrushchev had boasted would surpass the U.S. level by this year, has been growing at a slower rate for the past two years and stands at only 43% of U.S. labor productivity. Soviet industrial production is now expected to rise only 6.3% this year, v. a 7% growth last year...