Word: khrushchevism
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...Nikita Khrushchev was impressed and decided to give Libermanism a chance. One factory in Moscow and another in Gorky were put on the profit and free-market system on a trial basis six months ago. Not surprisingly, they demonstrated a vast improvement in efficiency over the old Marxist bureaucratic model. When Khrushchev was ousted, some Soviet experts suspected that his revisionist experiments with Libermanism were at least partly to blame. On the contrary, the new leadership moved quickly to make Libermanism a prime element of their domestic policy...
...line biography describing his rise to Chairman of the Council of Ministers and First Party Secretary. Even the fellow's inspirational quote on the back gave way to an anonymous poem praising party modesty. Thus, by having his birthday wiped from the state calendar, did Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev become an "unperson...
Decalendarizing was not the only demeaning treatment given the departed Khrushchev last week in Moscow. Word spread among book lovers that the first volume of the planned six-volume History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union would be withdrawn for a little updating. In case anyone wondered why Volume One (which deals with the period from 1883 to 1905) needed to be updated, they had only to recall that its preface made grand and glowing references to Khrushchev, one of which described him as the "true Leninist...
...four gracious Georgian mansions on Manhattan's Park Avenue between 68th and 69th streets were occupied by governments and such, but that was all right with the little old lady who lived around the corner on 68th Street. She didn't even mind in 1960 when Nikita Khrushchev visited the corner house, which was the Soviet U.N. mission, and played a noisy balcony scene. But when workmen started to raze the former mission and its neighbor in favor of a banal apartment tower, she minded very much and, identified by the sellers only as a "person of immense...
...there are a few moments when he cannot be absolutely sure that he himself is not being mocked. Significantly, the heaviest and most grateful applause of the evening is given to Rao, an Indian girl whose whole act consists of clever finger shadows of animals and images of Khrushchev, Nehru and De Gaulle...