Word: khrushchevism
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...Fool informed King Lear on the heath: "Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night to swim in. Now a little fire . . ." Russia's new Lear, Nilcita Khrushchev, passed his 72nd birthday on the heath outside his dacha near Moscow. His family held a pleasant little party all right, but alack, the palace-controlled Soviet press had neither poetry nor prose to mark the event. To them, the king is dead. And when the old dictator lit a bonfire to celebrate, the heavens opened and the rains doused Nikita's flame...
Sharp Curtailment. The Congress, first to be held under the Brezhnev-Kosygin duumvirate, made it clear that the two men prefer to concentrate on domestic issues. They gave Khrushchev full raps for "amateurish" planning, stressed gadget Communism, which, with its emphasis on consumer goods, outdoes Khrushchev's goulash Communism. Among the production goals for the new five-year plan: 18.5 million refrigerators, 30 million radios and phonographs, 27 million television sets and 2,500,000 personal autos. Kosygin's message also disclosed how widely the free-market ideas of Soviet Professor Evsei Liberman (TIME cover...
Humphrey's involvement in world affairs led to his appointment by Eisenhower as a delegate to the U.N., the World Health Organization and UNESCO. He traveled extensively, attended the Geneva disarmament talks, had his celebrated 81-hour Kremlin exchange with Nikita Khrushchev in 1958 and became chairman of the Sen ate disarmament subcommittee, whose recommendations helped pave the way for the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty. Appointed majority whip...
...attacking Stalin you were attacking Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union, Communist parties, China, the people and all the Marxist-Leninists of the world." Invidious comparisons of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin quickly followed: "After Stalin's death, the leaders of Russia, headed by Khrushchev, embarked on the old path of the German Social Democrats Bernstein and Kautsky, who betrayed Marx and Engels...
...Khrushchev's speech was coincidental with popular anti-Communist risings in Poland and Hungary. Nations that had been captured and coerced by the Red Army after World War II suddenly found a modicum of courage-though Khrushchev's tanks in Budapest and America's unwillingness to aid the Hungarian revolt with action made caution mandatory. But Moscow finally realized that it could no longer hope to retain loyalties in Eastern Europe by mere dictation. Russian forces began withdrawing from the satellites; by 1958, the 55,000 Red Army troops that had arrived in Rumania 14 years earlier...