Word: khrushchevism
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Neither Brezhnev nor Kosygin can as yet be certain of his job, and behind each, among the other oligarchs, stand any number of potential replacements. One major contender is gone-ailing Frol Kozlov, 56, whose name suddenly disappeared along with Khrushchev's from official pronouncements. President Anastas Mikoyan, 68, though shunted into the role of greeter last week, is still the man with the best balance in the Soviet Union, having survived every change of leadership since the fall of the Czar...
Right behind him is Mikhail Suslov, 61, whose icy, opportunistic command of ideology had seen him through Stalin and Khrushchev and firmly into the new era. But Mikoyan may be too old and Suslov too frail (he suffers from a chronic kidney ailment) to rate much of a chance among the hustlers in the Soviet Union today. Not so Nikolai Podgorny, 61, a hog-healthy Ukrainian protege of Khrushchev's who managed many of his most delicate foreign and agricultural projects, and Dmitry Polyansky, at 46 the "baby" of the Presidium but one of its canniest opportunists...
...these men would ultimately be willing to do to Brezhnev or Kosygin what they had done only a week before to Khrushchev...
Pieced together from reports in the non-Russian Communist press and triangulated by a few facts gleaned by Westerners in Moscow, the story of Nikita Khrushchev's fall is still far from complete. Contradictions abound, and the motivation of persons leaking details is obviously suspect. But the account, as it stands so far, of that hard day's night in which Nikita met his undoing rings true in terms of his familiar personality. He evidently went down as he came up-swinging...
Bare Majority. Two weeks ago, as Khrushchev relaxed in the fall sun at his Black Sea villa, a call went out from Moscow for a secret meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. The roundup call no doubt originated in the party Presidium, which Nikita unwittingly believed was heavily in his favor (he had hand-picked seven of its eleven other members). In from semi-exile flew such opponents of Khrushchev as New Delhi-based Ambassador Ivan Benekditov. Central Committee members known to be strong for Nikita were not called, among them Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington. Khrushchev was confidently...