Word: khrushchevism
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...Nikita Khrushchev was a man never short of bold ideas. In 1961. Dismayed at the pace of agricultural output, Khrushchev summarily promulgated one of his boldest: The Ministry of Agriculture would be relocated from its quarters in Moscow to a farm in Milkhailovskoe; similar plans were announced for the regional ministries of Agriculture and the Agricultural institute. "From the asphalt to the land," went the slogan. Innovation by shuffling location: surely, a bold idea. Also an incredibly stupid one, which created only greater chaos than had existed previously...
...Schorr did not seek the interview: one of Khrushchev's representatives called him, and his appearance paved the way for the premier's historic visit to the U.S. two years later...
...Schorr interviewed Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The interview was heralded at the time as ground-breaking; it was the first American television appearance by a Soviet leader...
China does have the capacity to lock horns with the U.S. military. The fact that Deng Xiaoping didn't say, "We will bury you" just means he's less cocky than Khrushchev. China has not carried out any open military operations of late, but it has been particularly insidious in supplying arms, especially the popular Silkworm land-to-sea missile, to nations whose wars are many miles away. The United States perceives China primarily as a cautious backer of North Korea and sometimes Vietnam, not as a direct threat...
With that focus on what Kennedy had to work with, Reeves has come up with fresh and fascinating material on the confrontations in Cuba, Berlin and Vietnam and on the "chummy" correspondence between Kennedy and Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev after the Cuban missile crisis (Khrushchev confided, for example, that Kennedy's election victory over Richard Nixon "did not draw tears from our eyes...