Word: khrushchevism
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...difficult to believe that less than three decades ago, Washington and Moscow were on the steely edge of war. The drama and tension of those years are vividly recaptured in Michael Beschloss's The Crisis Years. But this is no simple rehash of John Kennedy's sparring with Nikita Khrushchev. Beschloss casts new light on topics ranging from the Cuban missile crisis to the security risks of J.F.K.'s sexual dalliances...
Kennedy was still shaken from the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion when he met Khrushchev at the Vienna summit in June 1961. The Soviet Premier ended discussions on nuclear testing and Laos with a stunning demand for a separate German peace treaty, turning over Soviet responsibilities for access to Berlin to East German authorities. Kennedy rightly viewed this as a violation of four-power agreements and warned that any tampering with access would be met with force, including nuclear weapons. Soviet sources judged the President "scared," and Kennedy conceded later that Khrushchev had "just beat hell...
Despite their cliffhanging confrontations, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were faithful pen pals. The Crisis Years (HarperCollins), a new book on the Kennedy Administration by historian Michael Beschloss, discloses the contents of 80 secret messages between the U.S. and Soviet leaders on subjects ranging from the Berlin Wall to Vietnam. In his research, Beschloss discovered why the correspondence came to an abrupt end six weeks before Kennedy's death: because of a bureaucratic misunderstanding, the State Department failed to send a crucial Kennedy response to Khrushchev's peace proposals...
...different from Bush's on many points and incompatible on some, they're not, at root, necessarily directed against the U.S. That is the distinguishing feature of the current, and probably coming, phase of Soviet-American relations. It's also the key difference from the past. Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev all defined Soviet gain in terms of Western, and more specifically American, loss. Gorbachev has shown that while he will go his own way when he feels it necessary, he will also look for areas where he and Bush can move in tandem. Call it Soviet Palmerstonism. It leaves...
...Nikita Khrushchev once scoffed that his country would ditch communism when "a shrimp learns to whistle." Much of the world thought it heard that unlikely music last March when Soviet legislators amended the constitution to abolish the Communist Party's guaranteed monopoly on political power. Four months later, establishment baiter Boris Yeltsin shocked a party congress by staging a dramatic walkout, leading an exodus of some 2 million disaffected members. But Khrushchev's miracle may not have been quite enough. By last week, it had become clear that die-hard disciples of Marx and Lenin were determined to regain...