Word: khrushchevism
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...tussled with this problem in many ways and has been out of Moscow more than it has been in. When Stalin's ironhanded censorship tightened and our own reports were reduced to a useless trickle, we closed our Moscow bureau (1948). Then, as censorship began to ease under Khrushchev, we applied to reopen our office (1956) but were repeatedly turned down. The Soviets changed their minds and readmitted us (1958) but expelled one of our correspondents (1962) because they did not like his reporting on the Cuban missile crisis...
...this, as in most other respects, Nikita Khrushchev's style is more bourgeois than Borgia. His only son Sergei is a bespectacled engineer who shuns the limelight the way Papa relishes it. What really interests Sergei Nikitovich Khrushchev is butterflies and home movies...
...must make fascinating reading for Nikita Khrushchev and his colleagues, and it surely graces many a samovar table around the Kremlin. But how did the annual report of Litton Industries, California's electronics giant, get distributed in Moscow-and in Russian...
...answer illustrates an important change in attitude among U.S. businessmen. When Litton executives started working on the company's glossy 1963 report, they decided to print 2,500 copies in Russian, sent 1,850 of them to the highest comrades in the U.S.S.R., from Khrushchev on down. They obviously feel that there is potential for profit in dealing with the Soviet Union-and more and more U.S. businessmen agree...
...czars and commissars alike, Russia has never been a major U.S. customer because it had neither enough hard money nor desirable goods to offer in return. Before the one-shot U.S. wheat deal, the largest recent U.S. sale to Russia was $4,000,000 worth of inedible tallow. Now Khrushchev says that he wants to buy billions of dollars' worth of industrial plants and equipment to make chemicals, fertilizer and other products. For that, he probably will need heavy loans. Considering that U.S. law has prohibited long-term credits to the Soviets ever since they defaulted on Russia...