Word: khrushchevism
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...than 1,000 aircraft. Says a top-ranking admiral of the invasion plans: "We were prepared to execute an operation that would have compared in scope with the largest of World War II." It was that, plus the poised threat of U.S. nuclear retaliation against Russia, that undoubtedly caused Khrushchev to back away from his Cuban adventure...
...self-imposed ban on anything but poetry was lifted during a question period when Frost commented on his recent visit to Russia. The trip was made, he said, only to see Premier Khrushchev, whom he found "a very good-natured man with a terrible lot of cool nerve, like a big horse trader...
...Though Khrushchev was aiming his attack at unnecessary and inefficient administration, the overall result of his measures should be a sharp increase in bureaucracy. That, many economists think, is precisely the opposite of what Russia needs to achieve a modern and efficient economy. Kharkov's Professor Evsey Liberman has been arguing for months for a new plan that would give local plant managers more autonomy and would in effect give Russian industry a profit incentive. In his speech, Khrushchev referred to the plan without condemning or endorsing it. which means that it will go back to the experts...
Anemic Stuff. Mistakes in position are frequent and embarrassing. MOSCOW-NIPS PLOT TO KILL ARMY CHIEFS, cheered a Worker headline, after the ill-starred "doctors' conspiracy" against Stalin in 1953. When Khrushchev released the doctors, the Worker, caught by surprise, hastily backflipped. A 1961 Worker editorial demanding a "permanent ban" on nuclear testing appeared the same week that the Russians resumed testing. In the very next issue, the paper broke out in a rash of four articles justifying and approving the resumption...
...minutes from the campus. They get a real taste of the Russian passion for sharing food, clothes, books-almost everything except toothbrushes. They also get a close look at the Russian mind. One observation is that Russian students almost never adorn their rooms with pictures of Marx, Lenin or Khrushchev; another is that they are far less interested in cold-war quarreling than in hot questioning about U.S. music, literature and living. "There isn't much gung-ho Communism here," says one American...