Word: khrushchevism
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...challenge his devotion to the advancement of Russian interests. He was the one who ordered the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, demanded ideological purity in Eastern Europe with the "Brezhnev Doctrine," and started the current drive to repress dissent at home (see box page 26). "He is not making Khrushchev's mistake," says Carl Linden, a leading Soviet affairs expert at George Washington University. "Khrushchev tried to couple relaxation abroad with relaxation at home, while Brezhnev has kept the two separate. He realizes there is a fundamental antagonism between the two spheres. Brezhnev is a hard-nosed, realistic politician, a Machiavellian...
While Moscow is still sensitive about any nascent kult lichnosti, or personality cult, Brezhnev is nonetheless receiving a public relations buildup not seen since Khrushchev's time. In the recent one-slate Supreme Soviet elections, Brezhnev was referred to as the "first candidate" and as "head of the Politburo"-an interesting title since the Politburo supposedly has no head. If there is opposition to détente in Moscow, Brezhnev has effectively silenced it, at least publicly, and even those who are thought to be ideological hardliners, like Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov and Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, now publicly...
...Khrushchev's memoirs [May 6]: it was a very enlightening experience to look inside a man whom I had always thought of as a shoe-stomping tyrant and find that he was a very intelligent, concerned and compassionate individual. It is no wonder he was ousted: he was too human...
...orator" is clearly Leonid Brezhnev, whom Khrushchev seems to be castigating for the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
During the campaign, Khrushchev recalls, Nixon's running mate, Henry Cabot Lodge, visited Moscow and told the Soviet leader: "Mr. Khrushchev, don't pay any attention to the campaign speeches. Remember, they 're just political statements. Once Mr. Nixon is in the White House, I'm sure he'll take a position of preserving and perhaps even improving our relations. " Khrushchev, however, did not believe that Nixon would do so. Thus he argued to the Kremlin leadership that they should not release Powers until after the election lest it seem that the Russians were favoring...