Word: khrushchevism
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...Nikita Khrushchev, since he may never again be eligible...
...took just 30 seconds for the Supreme Soviet, Russia's moot parliament, to dispose of the absent Deputy for the Moscow district of Kalinin. In two swift, silent shows of 1,400 hands, without a single dissent or abstention, the assemblage in the Kremlin ratified Nikita Khrushchev's dismissal by the party Presidium last October as First Party Secretary and Premier. But except for a change in style, the Khrushchev spirit was very much present...
...been an informal deal between the U.S. and Russia, Washington denied it. The Soviet defense cuts did suggest that Russia's new regime is not particularly beholden to the military, but just how real the cutbacks will prove to be remains to be seen. A year ago, when Khrushchev reduced military spending with great fanfare, he conveniently raised outlays on "science" by precisely the same amount-and government-sponsored science these days usually means rocketry...
...wasted effort. Albania flexed its puny muscles with an 85-minute parade through Tirana's normally trafficless streets, and the military display included a few rockets, probably donated by Red China. Albanian Party Boss Enver Hoxha ranted his way through a three-hour speech hailing the removal of Khrushchev but blasting the new Soviet leadership for its failure to rehabilitate Stalin, who, said Hoxha, was a great Marxist-Leninist even though "he may have committed some small errors." Hoxha sneered that the new Soviet leaders "would like to have us Albanians go to Moscow and bow before them because...
...Khrushchev said tut-tut to all that, and Rozhdestvensky rather readily switched his blank-verse sermonizing from anti-Stalinism to anti-Americanism. Imagining himself a U.S. Indian in wild West days, he asked...