Word: khrushchevism
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When Nikita Khrushchev opened the gates of Stalin's concentration camps and set free hordes of political prisoners, he proudly boasted that "only lunatics" could object to life in Russia. So it seemed only logical for Nikita to deal with the intellectual critics of his own regime by locking them up not in harsh prisons-but in lunatic asylums. As men in white coats largely replaced the policemen, hundreds of writers, artists and other outspoken objectors to Communism vanished from the Moscow scene, to reappear in psychiatric hospitals as "mental cases...
...writer, is being treated in Ward 7 of a large Moscow mental hospital for the anti-state offense of smuggling manuscripts to the West. Tarsis himself spent six months in Kashchenko psychiatric hospital in 1962 and 1963 for sending The Bluebottle, a novel portraying the plight of intellectuals in Khrushchev's Russia, to a British publisher via a tourist. When he was released, Tarsis, now 59, went right to work on the story of his remarkable experience. Ward 7, which Tarsis insisted on having published under his real name, is the result...
...history in perspective: Stalin, while not fully rehabilitated, is no longer treated as though he did not exist. In fact, his name was cheered last week when Brezhnev mentioned the late dictator in a Moscow speech. Marshal Zhukov, in oblivion for almost eight years since Khrushchev fired him as Defense Minister, also appeared, and was photographed in full military regalia last week. A Soviet law journal published an astonishing article recently, suggesting that the time had come for Soviet voters to have not one name but a choice of candidates on their ballots...
...foreign affairs, in which they are clearly less competent and less interested. Their primary problem, the quarrel with Peking, has hardly been softened, despite a peace-making trip by Kosygin to Red China, and the Kremlin has even less control over Eastern Europe's "satellites" than did Khrushchev in his final years. In a recent speech, Demichev went so far as to explicitly endorse the independence of every Communist state; unlike Khrushchev, the new leaders know how to keep a dignified silence in the face of Peking's catcalls, which has at least kept their family quarrel slightly...
Widely regarded as a caretaker government, Khrushchev's successors have inevitably been scrutinized with gimlet eyes by Western Kremlinologists for who's on top-or likely to be. Nearly all agree that the burly Brezhnev, as party boss, is primus inter pares in a committee government including Kosygin, Podgorny, the ailing Suslov and Mikoyan-in roughly that order...