Word: khrushchevism
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...provide answers for the problems of America, not just harp on the problems themselves. We're going to do things the Wallace way, but we'll take ideas wherever we can find them. We read books by Adlai Stevenson, Eugene McCarthy, Richard Scammon [the political analyst], Khrushchev and Nixon...
...Kennedy for his role in the invasion's failure, as were most CIA agents and Cuban exiles. Kennedy refused to order a second air strike after the first one had been exposed--thus dooming the invasion force to defeat and capture--curtailed subsequent anti-Castro forays, and promised Khrushchev to end all invasion plans in return for removing Russian missiles...
Perhaps most important, Castro gradually convinced the U.S. that Cuba was no longer "exporting revolution" to the hemisphere. When Senator George McGovern visited Cuba last May, Castro discussed the 1962 missile crisis with him. "I was furious when Khrushchev compromised," Castro said. "But I realize in retrospect that he reached the proper settlement with Kennedy. If my position had prevailed, there would have been a terrible war. I was wrong...
...Soviet history is littered with collective leaderships that failed. Following Lenin's death, Stalin served on two consecutive triumvirates, each time ruthlessly eliminating his supposedly coequal partners. After Stalin, the various members of the Kremlin's new collective kept vying with each other for supremacy until Nikita Khrushchev emerged...
...real significance, it nonetheless offers an impressive historical perspective: it takes place 30 years after American and Soviet troops met at the Elbe, 27 years after the Berlin airlift, 26 years after the birth of NATO, 22 years after the death of Stalin, and 19 years after Nikita Khrushchev told the West, "We will bury you!" The Helsinki charter formalizes the boundaries and power balances created by recent history, thereby marking a theoretical end to World...