Word: khrushchevism
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...German scientific manuscripts, he bought Pergamon in 1951 for $36,400, cajoled experts from all over the world into writing scientific tomes for him. Fluent in nine languages including Russian, he won a virtual corner on rights to Soviet scientific works by face-to-face salesmanship with Nikita Khrushchev. In the process, he also persuaded the Soviet ruler to pay Western authors royalties for their works published in Russia (in nonexportable rubles). "I told him," recalls Maxwell, "that if he didn't agree I would pirate the works of Soviet authors...
...shall construct a hypothetical case. Let us suppose that at the time of the Hungarian Revolt Khrushchev had paid a visit to Moscow U. Let us imagine that the students (who in fact were indignant, and who did protest) had succeeded in "physically confronting" Krushchev. Let us imagine that they piled him with embarassing questions and that they hooted indignantly at his answers. Would we have criticized them for discourtesy? Would we have criticized them for obstructing Krushchev's movements? Would we have criticized them for disturbing the dignity of a great academic institution...
...understandable. Under Stalin, Georgia was more pampered than any other Soviet republic. It received disproportionately large allocations for farms, dams and fac tories, was permitted to preserve a good deal of private initiative at a time when the rest of Russia was being brutally forced into collectivization. After Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956, all of that changed. Georgians were dropped from power in Mos cow, and Khrushchev even tore up a few of Georgia's vineyards, replanting them with his favorite crop, corn...
...classic brag designed to show that he alone dictated Soviet foreign policy, Nikita Khrushchev once declared: "When I tell Gromyko to take off his pants and sit on a cake of ice, he does it." Last week, after sitting on the ice cake through nearly three years of steadily worsening U.S. -Soviet relations, it looked as if Khrushchev's successors may have at last told Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to get off and hitch up. With the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. already moving toward the conclusion of a New York-to-Moscow air pact and an outer-space treaty...
...unusual demonstration, 10,000 Jews also celebrated the festival in the streets of Moscow, an additional sign that since Khrushchev's fall restrictions against Jewish religious activities have been somewhat relaxed in the Soviet Union...