Word: khrushchevism
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...Brezhnev, 64, clasped his hands together like a prizefighter. The 24th Soviet Party Congress was nearly over, and the outpouring of praise for Brezhnev was by all odds the closest that the Soviet Union has come to the adulation of a single ruler since the collective leadership overthrew Nikita Khrushchev in 1964. In more practical terms of power, Brezhnev also emerged with a tighter hold on the levers of Soviet authority. As the Congress went through the motions of electing a new Central Committee and Politburo, they chose mainly Brezhnev...
...resources to consumer goods, proclaimed by Brezhnev, turned out to be more apparent than real. Kosygin's figures revealed that such production is to increase between 44% and 48% over the next five years. But at the same time, the production of heavy industry-the "metal eaters," as Khrushchev used to say-will rise by almost the same amount. A considerable part of heavy-industry output goes to a defense establishment, which is roughly the same size as America's. Since the Soviet gross national product is only half as large as that of the U.S., the burden...
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...economy, which according to Khrushchev's boast was to have surpassed the U.S. economy last year, may stand half a trillion dollars behind America's G.N.P. by the end of 1971. More important, the Soviet consumer wants more and better goods, and he is not getting them...