Word: khrushchevism
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...dissident Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov offers some cogent reservations about the process in a recently completed essay, My Country and the World. Excerpts from it accompany our cover story. They were selected by TIME'S State Department correspondent Strobe Talbott, whose previous credits include translating two volumes of Khrushchev Remembers (Little, Brown & Co.), including his The Last Testament...
...Soviet elite is enjoying the biggest slice of the steady growth in national wealth. "There's more pie and more fat flies to share it," notes a Leningrad sociologist. On the woody outskirts of Moscow, the birch-shaded grounds of Khrushchev's old dacha at Petrovo-Dalneye are being torn up to make room for rows of mini-dachas, which look like motel cabins, for middle-rung apparatchiks. The system of special stores for top people, stocked with Western goods and local caviar, is expanding...
...Soviet citizens, the tanks that rumbled through Prague had their equivalent at home in the police's storming of Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn's apartment, in the bulldozers crushing an unofficial art exhibition, in the new flow of political prisoners into the concentration camps that Khrushchev had virtually emptied. Some of the country's most talented dancers, musicians, writers and scholars are retreating in despair from neo-Stalinism and from cultural stagnation. Many are emigrating and defecting to the opportunities-and the pains-of exile. The remaining dissenters are depressed. Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the hero of those...
...Star City, the cosmonaut complex outside Moscow. There was also close cooperation by U.S. and Soviet design and engineering teams, as well as delicate diplomatic negotiations that go back five years and, ultimately, to 1961, when President John Kennedy, in a light moment at ins Vienna summit with Nikita Khrushchev, suggested to the Soviet Premier: "Let's go to the moon together." Khrushchev's reply...
Neither side wanted to be responsible for the failure of a mission so long in the making. The Kennedy-Khrushchev overtures notwithstanding, the Russians showed a serious interest in a joint space act for the first time after the Americans proved their clear superiority in space by landing on the moon in 1969. Apollo 13's failure a year later added a new inducement to a joint mission: the obvious need for orbital rescue capability. President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin formally agreed on a joint space mission at the 1972 Moscow Summit...