Word: khrushchevism
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...Modicum of Courage. Eastern Europe's breakaway from Russian rule began in 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin at the Soviet 20th Party Congress in his seven-hour "secret speech." By cracking the icon of invincibility that had held Russia in thrall, Khrushchev also unlocked-unwittingly-the forces of Eastern European nationalism. Says one Washington observer: "Nationalism is the strongest force in Eastern Europe today, stronger than ideology, stronger than the Communist parties themselves." Columbia's Kremlinologist Zbigniew Brzezinski puts it flatly: "East Europe is where the dream of Communist internationalism lies buried...
...Russia, a new five-year plan jettisoned Nikita Khrushchev's dream of overtaking U.S. heavy industry by 1970 and focused instead on a goal that Red China's rulers condemn as pure capitalistic decadence-making life more pleasant for the people. Throughout the world, Peking seeks to incite "wars of national liberation." Yet in Red China itself, noted Columnist Joseph Alsop, the regime's paranoid leaders have become so distrustful of the younger generation that they have shipped all members of the three upper classes at pace-setting Peking University to Sinkiang, the Chinese Siberia, "to improve...
Soviet economic plans usually seem more like daydreams than serious forecasts of intended achievement. The classic was Nikita Khrushchev's seven-year plan (1959-65), which promised to make Russia a Communist Utopia by 1970, complete with the world's highest standard of living and largest industrial production. Moscow's new leaders are more realistic. Last week Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin unveiled a new five-year plan that takes up where Khrushchev's seven-year plan leaves off. Gone was the old bombast, the exuberance, the phony dreams. And gone-for once-was the promise...
Emphasizing their new "language of truth," the Soviet planners admitted that the good life is still a good way off. By 1970 they expect the Soviet national income to be up 85% from 1960-impressive, but still only half of the Khrushchev goal. Where Khrushchev forecast an annual electric-power capacity of 950 billion kw-h by 1970, the new five-year plan predicts 840 billion kwh. Over the same period, steel production is supposed to climb to 124 million tons a year (v. Khrushchev's 145 million tons), oil production to 355 million tons a year (v. Khrushchev...
...sops go, Yuri Bondaryev's Silence is an especially cynical one. It was tossed to the Russian public at a time (1962) when Khrushchev was touching up his image as a liberalizer. It is tossed to the U.S. public at a time when the Soviet regime is anxious to make the West forget that two Russian writers...