Word: khrushchevism
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...only doing Khrushchev's dirty work but also something against our best national interests...
...Rocky suspect that Kennedy, in his considerable correspondence with Khrushchev, had made some sort of deal? "Well, I have no idea," replied Rocky. "I only said that because it is hard to see what other reason there would be, in view of our past policy, and it seems to me this is a very sharp change of policy concerning which the public has not been advised...
News of the cancellation did not come as much of a surprise, since Yevtushenko's writing, which is often critical of the Soviet Union, has recently brought condemnation from Soviet political leaders. At a meeting with artists and writers last month, Premier Nikita Khrushchev singled out the 29-year-old poet and novelist Ilya Ehrenburg for severe censure...
...Cued by Khrushchev himself, who recently rapped Evtushenko for "cheap sensationalism." a three-day meeting of the Union of Soviet Writers last month addressed itself almost exclusively to destroying the cult of Evtushenko. In all, close to 40 tame authors trooped monotonously forward to denounce Evtushenko and other liberal young writers for offenses ranging from bad rhymes to "sacrilegious statements" about the Revolution. Though Evtushenko made abject apologies for his "irrevocable mistake.'' the drumfire of criticism only grew louder and more insistent...
...Though Khrushchev was plainly out to make Evtushenko the scapegoat, the campaign against the poet was only part of a new. systematic attempt to clamp strict party controls on the theater, music, art, book publishing, industrial design, and every other field in which young Communists might be tempted to voice independent thoughts. It was once more that "strange time." as Evtushenko wrote in 1960. "when common integrity could be called courage...