Word: khrushchevism
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Still others maintain that the U.S. would do well to recall how it reacted during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had sent two messages to John F. Kennedy, one truculent, the other conciliatory. At the urging of his brother Robert, President Kennedy decided to ignore the first and reply to the second, and a settlement swiftly followed (see THE PRESS...
...Silence. No other first novel has ever had such an exclusive private printing, or such an exclusive first audience. Khrushchev wanted to use the book as a weapon in his own power struggle with the hardliners, Mikhail Suslov and Frol Kozlov. By Khrushchev's order, the script was set in type and 20 copies were run off on the Swedish-built presses the Kremlin reserves for state documents. The copies were distributed to members of the Presidium. Then, at Khrushchev's summons, the Presidium met. The members sat at a long table, each with his copy of the novel...
...silence did not last. The top of the Soviet hierarchy erupted into controversy over Khrushchev's plan to publish the book, but at his direct authorization the novel appeared in the November issue of Novy Mir. The 95,000-copy press run sold out within days, as did the 100,000 copies in book form that quickly followed; by now, millions of Russians have read it, although it is no longer in bookstores and is gradually disappearing from library shelves...
Unmistakable Signal. One Day was the high point in a year of unparalleled triumph for Russia's liberals in all the arts. The euphoria came to an abrupt end soon after. The failure of Khrushchev's Cuban missile adventure was the last in a series of catastrophes in foreign and domestic policy that put him under increasing pressure from political opponents. Freeze-and-thaw was replaced by steadily deepening freeze. Khrushchev began a partial rehabilitation of Stalin that his successors continued and added...
Then, on March 29, in the first pronouncement on cultural policy by a top leader since Khrushchev's fall, Brezhnev attacked "the abominable deeds of these double-dealers," the intellectuals who had protested the writers' trials, and promised that "these renegades" would be punished. Another trial was held in Leningrad, with 17 intellectuals convicted on the bizarre and clearly fabricated charge of conspiracy to replace the Soviet government with a democracy under the Russian Orthodox Church. Mass expulsions from the Writers and Artists Unions began; this meant loss of jobs and apartments. Among those expelled was Solzhenitsyn's close friend...