Word: khrushchevism
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When President John Kennedy met with Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961, the Soviet Premier did his best to intimidate his rival. Brezhnev made no such effort. Russians speculated that he might well be awed by Nixon's skillful use of power. "He has impressed our leaders by his seriousness and concentration," was the word. "They are still deciding if they can trust...
Perhaps most important, the Moscow summit comes at a time when the changed relationship between the two superpowers cries out for discussion and debate. When John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev met in the last full-fledged summit at Vienna in 1961, the U.S. still possessed an overwhelming edge in nuclear might. In a costly arms buildup, the Soviet Union has achieved parity in weaponry, a fact that naturally worries American military experts but nonetheless does have one positive aspect...
WHEN Leonid Brezhnev replaced Nikita Khrushchev in Russia's top job eight years ago, Kremlinologists tended to agree that the obscure new First Secretary of the Communist Party was just another faceless nullity in the gray mass of Soviet bureaucrats. They were wrong, of course. At 65 the Soviet leader has emerged as a shrewd, robust, forceful and even dashing personality, with a love of fast cars and a zest for life. On the same stage with him, other Politburo members almost seem like part of the furniture...
After the dictator's death, Brezhnev owed his advancement to Khrushchev, who had recognized his abilities and loyalty in the Ukraine. Khrushchev entrusted his protégé with supervision of his vast "Virgin Lands" agricultural scheme and later made him a full Presidium member and gave him the prestigious but honorific title of Chief of State. Finally, Khrushchev gave him power second only to his own in the party. Thus entrenched, and now a master of Kremlin power politics, Brezhnev became a leading member in the plot to oust his patron. Within hours of Khrushchev's fall...
...Soviet Union's most prominent literary loyalists; in Kiev. Because of his skill in blending party line with plot, Korneichuk won five Stalin Prizes and a number of political appointments during the 1930s and '40s. After Stalin's death, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev and in 1955 attacked the fallen secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, in a play called Wings. It marked the start of Khrushchev's public assault on Stalinism. Korneichuk also survived Khrushchev's ouster, serving the present regime in a variety of cultural-political assignments...