Word: khrushchevism
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...ambassador to Moscow from 1957 to 1962, Thompson was able to work more closely with Soviet leaders than any other postwar U.S. envoy. His firsthand knowledge of Nikita Khrushchev's mind helped Thompson to divine Moscow's reactions throughout the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. He has been the State Department's chief resident negotiator with the Russians ever since...
What the three disparate raises reflect in common is the new economics, Soviet style, which is slowly reshaping the Russian way of business. Based on the ideas of realistic-minded economists like Kharkov's Evsei Liberman, the post-Khrushchev leadership of Brezhnev and Kosygin during 24 months in power has been nudging the Soviet economy toward a more rational system. One of its facets, as the shorter-skirted models displayed, was summed up by the fashion editor of the Ministry of Culture's newspaper: "The time has come when the customer can choose, order, indulge in fantasy...
During a visit to the Soviet Union in 1962, Salinger got into a discussion with Khrushchev on the subject of Richard Nixon. Khrushchev reminded Salinger of the incident in July 1960 when a U.S. Air Force RB-47 was shot down over the Barents Sea. Nixon, said Khrushchev, tried to use the incident to his advantage. Through an unnamed "high-ranking" Republican, explained Khrushchev, Nixon "approached us with the request to release the crew members of the American RB-47. We of course understood that Nixon wished to make political capital out of this for himself in advance...
Writes Salinger: "I responded that the release of the RB-47 flyers before the election might very well have won it for Nixon. 'Of course,' said Khrushchev. 'For this reason, I said it would not be proper to do this. For you see, Nixon wanted to make it appear as if he had already arranged certain contacts with the Soviet government. And this, of course, would have played a decisive role in the election. That is why we decided to wait a while until Kennedy came to power, and only after that release the American flyers...
...clear that Khrushchev wouldn't have lifted a finger to help Nixon get elected dogcatcher. The Communist boss described Nixon as "an intellectually limited" man who "produces the impression of a slightly fraudulent, petty storekeeper, capable of selling tainted herring or representing kerosene-soaked sugar as good merchandise." (The statement was made some time before Khrushchev himself came to be regarded by his own associates as a handy fellow with a tainted herring...