Word: khrushchevism
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...proved its readiness to protect West Berlin as far back as the 1948 blockade, later American muscle-flexing quickly persuaded the Kremlin to back down from efforts to instigate crises. In 1961, by rushing U.S. tanks to the Brandenburg Gate and calling up reserve units, President Kennedy forced Nikita Khrushchev to abandon his plans to change the status of the divided city...
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...
...scarcely avoid the charge that he has created a cult of personality that may soon rival that of Stalin or Mao. Brezhnev is comfortable in his hero's role, but, particularly in the Soviet Union, fame is fleeting. Stalin's name is not often mentioned, and Khrushchev's has been expunged from the official language. Yet when Khrushchev celebrated his own 70th birthday in 1964, it was Brezhnev who led the cheering: "Dear Nikita Sergeyevich, your marvelous deeds have won you the love of all our party, the whole Soviet people. This fills our hearts with...
...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...