Word: khrushchevism
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...carried around the world that the czars took heed. In the early years of Communist rule, Maxim Gorky wielded his renown to save and protect people, until he died a mysterious death probably arranged by Stalin. Boris Pasternak constituted an invisible government that the regime could never quite overthrow. Khrushchev could make Pasternak give up his Nobel Prize, but no one could erase the protest he raised in his masterwork, Doctor Zhivago: "They only ask you to praise what you hate most and to grovel before what makes you most unhappy...
Solzhenitsyn's role in the consciousness?and conscience?of Russia began with One Day, which was published in 1962 on Khrushchev's order, for political reasons of his own. The book quickly took on an independent life. In cutting away the barbed wire of myth, in piercing the silence around the Stalin era, the book opened up the first frank discussion not only of the Soviet past but its present and future...
...something appropriate to the occasion. So I got up. I put on my best black suit, a white shirt with a starched collar, a tie, and my good shoes. Then I sat at my desk and read a new classic." Tvardovsky sent the manuscript to Khrushchev...
...Titoists" and "traitors." Fittingly, Gottwald caught a chill at Stalin's funeral in 1953 and died a few months later. An almost equally unbending Stalinist took his place: Antonin Novotny, who had been Communist boss of Prague. As the slight winds of liberalism blew throughout the East bloc following Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin, Novotny tried his best to ward them off. Even so, the pressure for change built up. Art, especially literature and film making, experienced an underground renaissance. Artists and students demanded freedom of expression. Industrial planners and economists asked for freer and more effective ways...
...whose antics drew national attention to the city of lights; of cancer; in Aurora. "When I first ran for mayor," said Egan, "they tried to prove I was crazy." He did little to prove otherwise, fired Aurora's entire police force (they refused to quit), called Khrushchev to enlist Red cops (no answer), and once demanded federal troops to put down an insurrection in the city council...