Word: khrushchevism
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When he died in 1971, Nikita Khrushchev was officially a nonperson. Despite his eleven years as Soviet party chief, he was denied the usual honors of burial at the Kremlin Wall and was instead allotted a plot in the far corner of the Novodyevichy Cemetery, Moscow's second-ranking burial ground. The newspapers that had once headlined his speeches identified him in his death notice only as a "pensioner of the state...
...Khrushchev family was obviously resentful of this treatment and decided on their own to erect a monument in Novodyevichy. At a cost of about $20,000, the family hired Ernst Neizvestny, the Soviet Union's most talented sculptor...
...hated banks, perhaps because when he was a young man a teller mocked him for having a small unearned income. He was a shrewd house carpenter. He loved his collie. He was mortified when he visited Russia and thought (mistakenly) that he was not to be permitted to see Khrushchev...
...only has been a scourge and a failure in the past, he says, but now threatens to lead the U.S.S.R. into a war with China. Shrimps may learn to whistle -as Nikita Khrushchev said in another connection-before such a thing is done by the Soviet government. "Human nature," Solzhenitsyn once wrote, "changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth." The author's suggestion-in Gulag-that the masters of the Kremlin put on trial the men most evidently guilty of the past imprisonment, torture and murder of so many millions of their countrymen will probably...
...Stalin downplayed the marshal's achievements and farmed him off to bush-league posts in Odessa and the Urals. The day after Stalin's death in 1953, Zhukov was made Deputy Defense Minister, then rose to full Minister and member of the Presidium. After a row with Khrushchev, he was drummed back into obscurity, but resurfaced in the mid-1960s and went to his Kremlin-Wall tomb an official hero...