Word: khrushchevism
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...live like a hermit on the outskirts of Moscow. I communicate only with those who guard me from others-and who guard others from me." Thus begin the reminiscences of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who was the most powerful man in the Soviet Union from 1955 until his downfall in 1964. Khrushchev's rather forlorn comment on his enforced six-year silence is all the more poignant coming from a man who stood for so long at the center of history. At week's end the ex-Premier, 76, was admitted to a Moscow hospital, reportedly suffering...
...journalistic coup, it would be hard to beat the publication of Nikita Khrushchev's reminiscences. Last week LIFE announced that it had accomplished just that coup. Beginning with its issue of Nov. 23, the magazine will serialize Khrushchev Remembers in four successive installments. The articles will be accompanied by previously unpublished pictures; the entire undertaking was carried out in deep secrecy, and was given the code name "The Jones Project." On Dec. 21, Little, Brown (owned by Time Inc.) will publish the 275,000-word book. LIFE and Little, Brown announced that they "are convinced beyond any doubt...
...introduction, Edward Crankshaw, noted British Kremlinologist and a Khrushchev biographer, characterized the volume: "Here was Khrushchev, quite unmistakably speaking, a voice from limbo, and a very lively voice at that. . . An extraordinary, a unique personal history." As for the former Soviet Premier himself, he was reported last week to be at his villa, 25 miles from Moscow, bedridden with "cardiac insufficiency...
...security (some of the U.N.'s own 230-man guard force used the occasion to stage a "sick-out" in support of wage demands). In 1960, the 34 world leaders who showed up for the U.N.'s 15th anniversary included such luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Jawaharlal Nehru and Fidel Castro...
...ministers. That left Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu as the only Eastern European star-quality representative at the meeting. Ceausescu, of course, made the trip not so much to visit the U.N. as to drum up trade deals and tour Disneyland (a treat, he was well aware, that was denied Khrushchev during his 1959 U.S. tour for security reasons...