Word: khrushchevism
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Even before he was ousted for conspiring against Nikita Khrushchev in 1957, former Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov was not known for his dinner-table loquacity. Now nearing 80, Stalin's oldest colleague warmed up enough at a recent party to utter some pronouncements that had the ring of his late master's voice...
Former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko spent 34 of his 63 years in the Soviet Army. In 1961, however, he had the temerity to criticize the "Khrushchev cult" at a party meeting. That outburst eventually cost him his army career, and sent him off to an asylum for 14 months as a "schizophrenic." In time, the old soldier became one of the most vigorous and spirited dissenters against the current regime. Seven months ago when he arrived in Tashkent to act as counsel for ten Crimean Tartars who were on trial for civil rights activities, Grigorenko was arrested for "anti-Soviet...
...make a revolution," he once said. "This was in 1945, when Stalin tried to prevent the Chinese revolution by saying that there should be no civil war and that we should collaborate with Chiang Kaishek. This we did not do, and the revolution was victorious." Mao later quarreled with Khrushchev. More recently, Moscow's border clashes with Peking and its attempts to organize opposition to Mao within China have encouraged the Chairman to permit even harsher criticism of the Soviets...
...named a Marshal of the Soviet Union, and rose to the post of assistant chairman of the party's defense committee. With Stalin's death in 1953, he became President of the U.S.S.R., a post from which he was dismissed seven years later, after opposing Khrushchev's 1957 bid for power...