Word: khrushchevism
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...Marchais well knew, there has been more soul-searching within the party than at any time since 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev delivered his watershed anti-Stalin speech and when Soviet troops invaded Hungary. The cause this time was the debacle in March. After all, before the election, opinion polls showed that the leftist parties had their strongest opportunity since the creation of the Fifth Republic in 1958 to push a left-wing coalition regime into power. What shook the Communists was not just the unexpected victory by the center-right coalition led by President Valéry Giscard...
...that marked his brilliant playing career (in eleven years with the pros he averaged 20.8 points a game). He rants so fervently on the sidelines that he is frequently rapped with technical fouls. In one recent game, Billy C. pulled off a shoe and pounded the floor á la Khrushchev to express...
Rainmaker: law-firm partner who brings in business, sometimes because he has held high Government office. Among the most famous was Richard Nixon, who managed to attract Pepsi-Cola to the New York firm of Nixon, Mudge, Rose partly because as Vice President in 1959 he steered Nikita Khrushchev to the Pepsi kiosk in Moscow as photographers clicked away. Rainmakers can come up dry: ex-Attorney General Ramsey Clark did so much free pro bono work that he lost money for his former New York firm...
...Khrushchev report confirmed truths about Stalinism that Gornick believes many Communists and sympathizers already suspected but could not face. For her, the 20th Congress Report "snapped the last thread in a fabric of belief that was already worn to near disintegration." As a feminist 15 years later, she watched closely as consciousness succumbed to rigid rhetoric. But for Gornick, the knowledge that "dogma was the kiss of death for all thought" was cathartic. At long last, she forgave the Communists for their mistakes and began again to love them for their passion...
...Soviet Union for having served for thirteen years in government posts under Stalin without being liquidated by Beria-the Stalin Minister of the Interior-or sent to Siberia, as was the fate of all those who worked under Stalin. Not one of them except Kosygin was spared-as Khrushchev told us when he visited Egypt...