Word: khrushchevism
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Massive Reassessment. Aside from the obvious uncertainties about the Arab countries, eventual relations with Israel and the political longevity of the principal Arab leaders, the Russians have been suffering from their own where-do-we-go-from-here problems. The system of collective leadership practiced since Khrushchev's removal in 1964?what State Department Policy Planner Zbigniew Brzezinski calls a "regime of clerks"?has resulted in a slow-motion foreign policy that inhibits innovation or quick decision even more effectively than Washington's dinosauric bureaucracy. Moscow's inability to get itself out of its self-dug holes, no matter...
...well as the older nations that profess concern that their fate should largely reside in American and Soviet hands, the non-news of the Summit should in itself be a measure of reassurance. Johnson was no more the plains-Texan wheeler-dealer than was Kosygin a shoe-banging Khrushchev. Both men demonstrated that they are able to survey, if not to solve, the overriding issues with acumen and restraint...
...matter what upheavals occurred there. Though skilled as a politician, he was not classed as a hard-line Stalinist. His success as Deputy Premier for a total of 19 years was mostly due to his talent as a masterful apparatchik, the engineer of Soviet economic machinery. Said Nikita Khrushchev in 1958: "Kosygin knows everything...
...Triumvirate: In 1964, when the party Central Committee sacked Khrushchev, it promoted Kosygin-then First Deputy Premier-to Premier. Today, Leonid Brezhnev, an ebullient and sloganeering politician, acts as Russia's chairman of the board: Kosygin is the chief Soviet operating officer and head of government. A pragmatist, he remains aloof from ideological disputes and factional politics. Under his leadership, the government is slowly absorbing many of the administrative responsibilities long held by the party. The third member of the Kremlin triumvirate, President Nikolai Podgorny, is the least powerful, although in recent months he has emerged as a traveling...
...BERLIN. Moscow did its best to squeeze the Allies (U.S., Britain, France) out of West Berlin with the blockade in 1948-49. Truman's characteristically spunky reply was the airlift, and another Soviet defeat. Again in 1959, after Nikita Khrushchev launched his rocket-rattling "breakthrough" policy, the Russians began threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, thereby isolating and possibly dooming West Berlin. The threat to Berlin, repeated in 1960 and 1962, was defused by U.S. troop reinforcements. The building of the Wall in 1961 to choke off the flow of escapees was tacit admission...