Word: khrushchevism
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Flickering Images. Economically, the Brezhnev era has seen-after the eccentric years of changing plans and sudden policy switches under Nikita Khrushchev-steady progress in building national strength. There has been some progress in providing consumer amenities, even though the variety and quality of food, clothes, appliances and services are primitive by Western standards. The Soviets are now the world's largest producers of coal, oil, iron ore, steel, tractors and mineral fertilizers, and are engaged in massive energy, transportation, metals and agricultural projects. They are spending billions on public housing and subway systems. The basic self-sufficiency...
...going to talk to you with sweet words," he said. "The situation in the world is not just dangerous. It is not just threatening. It is catastrophic!" He noted that Nikita Khrushchev used to tell the U.S., "We will bury you." Today, said Solzhenitsyn, the Soviets are too clever to say that. "Now all the Soviets say is 'détente...
...with meager success. The trademarks of Communist economies remain indelible: low productivity, shortages of goods, lengthy queues in stores, years-long waits for apartments. In order to spur initiative, most Communist countries also have huge and growing differences in real income (and perquisites) between commissar and collective farmer. Nikita Khrushchev once replied to a charge that the Soviet Union was going capitalist: "Call it what you will, incentives are the only way to make people work harder...
Shelepin's meteoric rise through the Communist Party apparatus under Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev showed him to be outstandingly adroit in cultivating useful political alliances and cutting through the ossified Soviet bureaucracy. He established a substantial power base as head of the Komsomol organization of young Communists and later as chief of the KGB, the Soviet secret police...
Some experts believe he helped Brezhnev engineer the conspiracy that ousted Khrushchev. At any rate, Shelepin was soon rewarded by a promotion to the Presidium (now the Politburo). Since 1965, however, while he remained a full Politburo member, he has always lurked in the antechambers of total power. His ambition and talent could hardly have pleased the Politburo majority...