Word: khrushchevism
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...Carter Administration's tough response, "we were told that we would get no assistance and that our reporters and photographers from the U.S. would not get visas." Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who has covered the Soviet Union for TIME and was the translator-editor of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, was in the U.S.S.R. when tensions began to mount. Says Talbott, who wrote this week's opening story and the appraisal of U.S.-Soviet relations: "It was like being out of doors without enough warm clothes on and watching the mercury drop another ten degrees before my very...
...extended military metaphor is Solzhenitsyn's own. Scarcely any other image is large enough to encompass the feat of a writer who consistently outwitted and outmaneuvered Nikita Khrushchev, the KGB and the Soviet literary establishment in the pursuit of his mission: to bear witness to the Gulag before his countrymen and the world...
This memoir ranges over the years of his greatest productivity and fame, beginning in 1962 with the publication of his concentration camp novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich on Khrushchev's orders, and ending with his deportation from the Soviet Union in 1974. Solzhenitsyn, whose creative energies seem to flourish in adversity, was in top form when he wrote The Oak during the years 1967-73; only the climactic chapter, footnotes and appendixes have been added in exile. The force of his narrative, the drama of unfolding historical events and the density of supporting detail combine...
...sensed his opportunity in Khrushchev's second, resounding de-Stalinization speech in 1961. Unearthing One Day and departing for Moscow, he embarked on a series of masterly intrigues designed to interest Khrushchev in publishing his harrowing tale of the Stalinist camps. Exactly one year later his scheme succeeded; ultimately, the novel was published in editions totaling 921,000 copies, encouraging many Soviet citizens to expect and even to demand punishment of officials still in power who had shared in Stalin's crimes...
...country does indeed face an immediate external threat or an internal threat of subversion, Yugoslavs have no illusions about its source. True, Belgrade's relations with Moscow have much improved since 1948. Seven years later Soviet Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev partly made up for the animosities of the Stalin era by flying to the Yugoslav capital. There, after an apparently amicable meeting with Tito, he publicly acknowledged that "different forms of socialist development are solely the concern of individual [Communist] countries." Tito's relationship with Leonid Brezhnev was edgy but cordial...