Word: khrushchevism
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What caused the fall of Premier Khrushchev? The relevant factors are as obscure as they could be without becoming entirely mysterious. But there are indications of the constellation of events that brought his demise. Khrushchev seems to have been very securely in power by 1958; the years that followed brought an increasing burden of setbacks which shook his hold...
...international scene, Berlin was a serious defeat. Khrushchev evidently thought he could force the Allies out of the city with a series of threats following hard on the Sputnik successes in space. He was forced to back down. The Cuba confrontation of October 1962 was an even more paralyzing setback. And within the Communist camp, the Premier's handling of relations with China had allowed a dispute to swell into uncomradely hostility. He had planned to stage a climactic meeting of the world's Communist parties in Moscow this December to condemn the Chinese, but the fraternal parties dragged their...
...Soviet Union had to spend hoarded reserves of currency on the world market to buy millions of tons of grain. There were industrial difficulties in allocation of resources: the military pressed for its habitual lion's share while the technocrats demanded the same resources in order to meet Premier Khrushchev's exuberant promises of advances in consumer goods...
...suffering abroad. The revolutionaries are turning to the Chinese, the mixed-economy nations are on the whole sticking with the West, and the neutralists spurn the Russians as well as the Americans. Caught between the advances of a more revolutionary Communism and the responsibilities of nuclear power leadership, Premier Khrushchev was almost inevitably damned for what he did do, and damned for what he didn...
Finally, of course, the Premier was getting old. He was spending less time with his hands on the controls and placing more faith in his lieutenants. Leonid I. Brezhnev owed his entire career to Khrushchev; Aleksei N. Kosygin owed him the second chance so rarely granted in Soviet political life. One day, they seem to have decided that they had sufficient support to oust the old man vacationing at his Black Sea resort. They...