Word: khrushchevism
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This strategy was explained by Thomas E. Woods '94, vice-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club, who has said that Harvard could be compared to the Soviet Union under Khrushchev. While no one would suggest that Khrushchev's U.S.S.R. and today's Harvard are equally repressive, a similarity exists. In both places, Woods said last spring, "if you hold certain views you're wrong, out of the bounds of debate...
Woods compares Harvard to the Soviet Union under Khrushchev, "where if you hold certain views you're wrong, out of the bounds of debate." Woods adds that the "reckless name-calling" of liberals, employing epithets like "fascist" and "racist", greatly damages political discussion...
...majored in Russian literature at Yale, and wrote a master's thesis on that subject at Oxford. Clinton first witnessed Talbott's expertise 24 years ago when he and Strobe, both Rhodes scholars, shared a sparsely furnished row house at Oxford University. Clinton often recalled watching Strobe translate Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, and sustaining him with plates of scrambled eggs and biscuits and cups of coffee...
...addition to translating and editing two volumes of Khrushchev's memoirs, Strobe has written five books on the relationship between the Soviet Union and the U.S. His sixth, At the Highest Levels -- The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War, co-authored with historian Michael Beschloss, will be published by Little, Brown this month...
...never stopped believing that history moves in a circle, not a straight line. Ask a wrinkled babushka selling vodka on the street about Yeltsin's chances of success, and she will leapfrog back in memory over Mikhail Gorbachev's ill- fated perestroika to recall the doomed attempt by Nikita Khrushchev to break the stranglehold of the Stalinist past. An intellectual will delve even further into Russia's history, comparing Yeltsin's policies to the failed campaigns of reform-minded Czars like Peter the Great and Alexander...