Word: khrushchevism
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Every hope for continued progress, however, runs smack into the hard fact of Cuba. Nikita Khrushchev's thrust into that island turned Fidel Castro from a hero to a puppet in much of Latin America. When Kennedy forced Khrushchev to retrieve his long-range missiles and bombers, respect for the U.S. soared. Yet much of that has been dissipated by the realization that Cuba's potential for troublemaking in the hemisphere is still growing. That threat alone meant that there would be much worth talking about at the Presidents' meeting...
...made his tactical point by accepting Moscow's call for bilateral negotiations over the Sino-Soviet rift and inviting Nikita Khrushchev to Peking. "The Communist movement has reached a critical juncture. The time has come when differences have to be settled." declared the Red Chinese, proposing that Russia's Premier stop off in Peking on the way to Cambodia, where a state visit by Khrushchev has been discussed for some time. Alternatively, suggested Mao. a Red Chinese delegation could go to Moscow to discuss the squabble...
Thaw was in the Moscow air last week, melting the first thin layers of snow after the long months of winter. But to the 500 writers, musicians, painters and poets gathered in the Kremlin's Sverdlov Hall last week, the changing season outside only underscored Nikita Khrushchev's words of warning shouted from the platform. Khrushchev's decree to Russia's intellectuals: new ideas in Russia must remain in the deep freeze-indefinitely...
...hears," cried Nikita in his 2 1/2hour blast, "that the time has come for laissez faire, that the reins of government have been loosened . . . that everybody can do as he pleases.'' No! thundered Khrushchev. "The party implacably comes forward against any ideological vacillation. There will never be any absolute political freedom, not even under complete Communism...
...clear that the recent flood of artistic expression-poetry readings before mass audiences, exhibits of modern paintings, jazz imported from abroad, books and articles about the Stalin terror-were becoming dangerous carriers of alien Western ideas, shaking the foundations of Communist society. Destalinization, touched off by Nikita Khrushchev himself at the 20th Party Congress in 1956, had gone...