Word: khrushchevism
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...been that it exists only in the eye of the beholder-or at any rate, the holder of power. To fall from favor was to fall from sight-to become an "unperson," who, as far as official comment was concerned, might as well have never existed. But the post-Khrushchev leadership of Brezhnev and Kosygin seems determined to give Russians a more honest glimpse of some tarnished heroes of the past...
...Soviet intelligence; moreover, his security police "instead of fighting the real enemies of the state, were used for entirely different purposes"-meaning Stalin's personal reign of terror over his own citizens. Nor do Zhukov or Kuznetsov get off scot-free: Zhukov has not been cleared of what Khrushchev called his "Bonapartist" tendencies to put the army outside party control, nor has Kuznetsov been absolved of his temerity in opposing Khrushchev's emphasis on submarine over surface ships...
...After the Russians captured Gary Powers and his wrecked U-2 plane in 1960, skillful Soviet dribbling of information led the U.S. from clumsy denial of the aerial surveillance to an awkward admission by President Eisenhower. As a result, Ike's summit with Khrushchev fell through; Moscow parlayed the incident into a propaganda spectacular by putting Powers on public trial. The U.S. called off further U-2 flights over Russia as a concession to disapproving opinions, although all major powers would use the same kind of airborne espionage if they had the means, and could get away with...
...Pigs, the Kennedy Administration again faced the problem of the Sovietization of Cuba, this time in infinitely more dangerous circumstances. Having learned a lesson about opinion, Kennedy did not hesitate to go to the brink to get the Russian missiles out of Cuba; but he gave Khrushchev a face-saving exit through the U.N. decompression chamber. The onlooking world, though nervous, on the whole approved the U.S. action. Kennedy passed up the opportunity of invading Cuba and destroying the Castro regime-not primarily because of world opinion but because of his calculation of the risks...
Nearly as remarkable as Tarsis' courage is the fact that the author apparently has gone unpunished for his latest literary sin; at last report, he was living with his wife and daughter in a Moscow flat-and continuing to write. A further sign of the post-Khrushchev leadership's gentler treatment of artists and writers was the scheduled departure for Italy last week of controversial Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, who plans a month's poetry-reading tour. It was the first time he had been allowed outside the Soviet Union since 1963, when he roamed through France...