Word: khrushchevism
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...policies and personalities of the new Administration may affect relations between the world's two superpowers. On the official level, Moscow has adopted a cautious wait-and-see attitude toward President-elect Nixon, despite his reputation there as a hardliner. As a West German diplomat noted: "For Khrushchev, Nixon was the epitome of the professional antiCommunist. But his successors evidently are smart enough to avoid anything that will turn Khrushchev's assessment into a self-fulfilling prophecy...
Hardy reports another intriguing rumor about Russia's deposed ruler: "Khrushchev himself, when told of the Soviet action in Czechoslovakia, said to friends, 'I believe that the 1956 intervention in Hungary was justified - but I cried for three days after I made my decision. This intervention was not justified-these...
...Soviets themselves have traditionally portrayed Nixon as a reactionary antiCommunist, particularly since his 1959 kitchen debate with Khrushchev. But some Soviets have begun to regard Nixon as an American version of Premier Aleksei Kosygin: an efficient apparatchik...
...Cabinet minister: "If things get too tough, I can call for the Sixth Fleet, just like this . . ." And the President snapped his fingers. Chamoun did call for help; the U.S. Sixth Fleet landed its Marines. Lebanon proceeded to settle its affairs without further outside interference. Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, who had been loudly rattling his rockets and threatening war if the U.S. intervened in Lebanon, quickly backed down in the face of the U.S. show of strength...
Solzhenitsyn's relentless narrative, moreover, takes place early in Khrushchev's regime, when the Soviet Union was first beginning to admit, and partially mitigate, the crudest of Stalin's repressions. For metaphorically inclined readers, it is justifiable to observe that Oleg Kostoglotov, the author's rough-hewn hero, has his relief from cancer (as Solzhenitsyn himself did) in 1955, precisely when the U.S.S.R. was having its first remission of the disease of mass exile and imprisonment...