Word: khrushchevism
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...restored czarist-style discipline on shipboard, requiring officers to wear bone-handled swords. He mapped the naval strategy used against Finland in 1940, and later led his fleet against the Nazis. Demoted by a suspicious Stalin, he was reinstated in 1951 and finally fell from power in 1956, when Khrushchev decided that Kuznetsov's emphasis on a surface navy was out of date...
Died. Yekaterina A. Furtseva, 64, Soviet Minister of Culture; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Furtseva joined the youth branch of the Communist Party as a teen-age worker in a textile plant, then climbed through a series of party posts. Closely allied with Nikita Khrushchev, she became Minister of Culture in 1960 and the most powerful woman in the Soviet Union. As Culture Minister, "Baba Katya" (Grannie Kate) sponsored an upsurge of artistic exchange with the West, but shifted after Patron Khrushchev's ouster to a policy of harsh repression (notably against Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
...reciprocate, Schecter presented Castro with a copy of Khrushchev Remembers, the Soviet leader's memoirs in which the Cuban Premier figures prominently, but failed-not for lack of trying -to lure Sports Buff Castro into a basketball game. "I had the feeling," concluded Schecter on returning home, "not so much of the heavy hand of socialism as of meeting a family member who had rebelled and wanted to rejoin the clan with respect and not be reminded of his or our mistakes...
...choice was curiously appropriate. Touring a show of experimental art in 1962, Khrushchev was startled by what he saw. He likened it to "painting done by an ass with its tail." Neizvestny was the most prominent artist represented, and he argued forcefully against Khrushchev for an hour. Though the party chief did not change his views on art, he was impressed by Neizvestny's courageous defense and, as he left, told the artist: "You are the kind of man I like." Later, after his forced retirement, Khrushchev expressed regret for having argued with Neizvestny...
Neizvestny's monument, which will be formally unveiled this week on the third anniversary of Khrushchev's death, is symbolically strong, a massive (9 ft. high, 5 ft. wide) abstract of white marble and black granite with a bronze bust of Khrushchev in the center. The white and black blocks, says Neizvestny, represent the bright and dark periods of Khrushchev's career, as well as the bright and dark periods of Soviet life...