Word: khrushchevism
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Hungary's brutal onetime Stalinist boss Matyas Rakosi ended up badly. In 1956, he was deposed by Nikita Khrushchev as part of a destalinization program and spirited off to the Soviet Union. According to unofficial reports from Russia, he died in 1963 in the Kremlin hospital...
...self-assurance and complete command. He had reason to. Unless the evidence that has been accumulating for weeks is completely illusory, Brezhnev is now on his way to gaining control of the Soviet Union's enormous power as no one man has been since the forced retirement of Nikita Khrushchev nearly six years...
...Congresses, for example, he said that he intended to keep the armed forces "fully provided with all that is needed for the vital task of national defense." If Brezhnev feels under any obligation to the military, however, his position could become uncomfortable. As the chief exponent of "goulash Communism," Khrushchev frequently sought to divert money and materials into consumer industries, away from the military men and what he called "the metal eaters"?the managers of heavy industry. But while Khrushchev tried, often unsuccessfully, to keep the military men on relatively short rations, Brezhnev may feel obliged to keep them...
...Since Khrushchev's one-man show came to an end, his successors have replaced his shoe-pounding, maxim-spouting ebullience with deliberateness that has long since crossed over the border into dullness. Conservative, guarded, suspicious, they exemplify a whole generation of bureaucratic middlemen. Writes British Kremlinologist Robert Conquest: "Vacillation, the attempt to combine contradictory drives, has been the pattern. The predominant motive seems to be a desire to avoid all change and reform in the hope that no crisis will spring up and that the contradictions within their society and economy will go away...
...ARMY, which was neglected by Khrushchev, has climbed back to 1,500,000, partly because of the China border dispute. Khrushchev's successors, who reversed his one-sided reliance ori rocketry, have placed great emphasis on the modernization of the army. Now a mobile, fast-striking force, the army is fully motorized and possesses the world's largest array of tanks-about 40,000. Geared to fighting over vast continental masses laced by countless rivers, the Russians have far better mobile bridge-building equipment than the U.S., and many of the tanks are equipped with six-foot snorkels...