Word: khrushchevism
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Communism has itself made wrenching readjustments. One of the more striking has been the post-Stalin push for respectability. True, the spectacle of Khrushchev banging a shoe at the U.N. did little to convince the world that Communism had suddenly become couth. Even then, however, Soviet diplomacy had come a long way from the era in which Soviet agents pushed Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk from a window of Prague's Czernin Palace...
...floodlights, has long been politically concerned. As president of the Screen Actors Guild in the late '40s, he helped block a Communist attempt to take over Hollywood's trade unions. In 1959, when 20th Century-Fox laid on a feast for the visiting Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Reagan refused to attend...
After Stalin's death, Khrushchev relieved the papers' grey monotony by allowing more lively coverage and makeup. As editor of Izvestia, Khrushchev's son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei, introduced a degree of cautious criticism; he also went in for some mild sensationalism, such as reporting the activities of the Abominable Snowman...
Adzhubei lost his job along with Khrushchev, but the trend to more flexibility in the press was not reversed. Today's Russian bosses, Brezhnev and Kosygin, play down the cult of personality (though they do not provide as lively copy as did Khrushchev). While Stalin's name used to appear in boldface and was given prominent display in most news stories, the present leaders are apparently content to have their names occasionally omitted from copy-which does not mean they are about to be demoted or disappear. Since news coverage is no longer a sure...
Prayer for Redemption. Author Tertz's aim is "to be truthful with the aid of the absurd and the fantastic." In his Orwellian fairy tale, Tertz twits Stalin and the cult of personality, Khrushchev and the cult of propaganda, the military mind, the herd instinct, and all the dizzy isms of contemporary Soviet life. He is intensely critical of human arrogance and folly, yet somehow views it all with detachment, as if from another point...