Word: khrushchevism
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...Khrushchev helped Kennedy win the 1960 presidential election...
Brown's public image hardly fits the diplomatic pattern. Ebullient and explosive, he managed to so rile Nikita Khrushchev during a Labor Party dinner in London a few years ago that the Soviet leader ended up praising the capitalistic Tories as by far the easier of the two British parties to get along with. On the evening of President Kennedy's assassination, Brown emoted tearfully on a London television show about his friendship with Jack-and got a bad press for letting down the stiff upper lip in public. But those who know Brown better testify that...
...professed to divine signs that the 62-year-old Premier might be in failing health and weary of the job. Instead, Kosygin was unanimously re-elected by the delegates on the first day, along with some of the other members of the collective leadership that took over from Nikita Khrushchev almost two years ago: among them President Nikolai Podgorny and First Deputy Premiers Kyrill Mazurov and Dmitry Poliansky...
...Broadway? Pasternak, says Voznesensky, made him what he is today. At eleven he became the great man's protégé, and at 20 he published the first of his five books of verse. By 1959 he was famous. By 1963 he was in serious trouble. Khrushchev went after him hammer and sickle as a "bourgeois formalist," and Russia's jackal journals bayed that he had "one foot in Gorky Street and the other on Broadway." Then the tone changed, and in April of this year Voznesensky was permitted to tour the U.S., reading his poems...
Avtorkhanov concedes that Brezhnev and Kosygin have granted what amounts to unprecedented concessions to democracy. Russian industry has introduced the profit motive. The Red army, which played a hand in Khrushchev's fall, has been given political rights and powers that, for the first time, crack the monolithic power structure of the state. But Avtorkhanov warns that none of these alterations should give much comfort to the West. Russian Communism, he says, comes perilously near to being self-perpetuating, proof against every perturbation beneath it: "The party apparatus is superior not only to the state but to the party...