Word: khrushchevism
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...noise of battle was shrillest in Peking itself, and the Chinese mood was not improved by a new $15 million Russian contract with New Delhi for oil-drilling equipment, or Moscow's promise to deliver MIG fighters to embattled India. In an outburst at "modern revisionism." meaning the Khrushchev line, Peking's People's Daily vilified the Kremlin's Cuban policy as "sinister and venomous, disgraceful." and seeking "to befuddle the Cuban people and mentally disarm them." The paper urged a "headon" confrontation with the U.S. instead of a "barter" of Communist principles. Next...
...private. Chinese Reds were even rougher. Communist editors in Hong Kong last week sought out Western newsmen for the first time in years specifically to denounce Khrushchev by name. They revived earlier charges that he had tried to overthrow the Peking regime by destroying blueprints for Chinese economic projects, and complained that Stalin's only mistake was "not killing Khrushchev in the purges." Khrushchev, went the line, is "an amateur Marxist who is betraying the cause with his philosophy of abundance." and is "as jealous of China's growing strength as only a bourgeois woman could...
...Soviet Union, 1962 has been a year of economic ferment unmatched since the early days of industrialization and the forced collectivization of the '30s. In this atmosphere, Nikita Khrushchev this week opens the plenum of the party's Central Committee, an assortment of some 2,000 committee members and other party workers summoned from factories and fields across Russia. The meeting is two months overdue; Khrushchev delayed calling it because he had hoped that things would settle down-domestically, that...
Evidently they have not. The plenum will have to deal with inefficient industrial production, the long-debated need for capitalist-style incentives, and the continuing failure of Soviet agriculture, including Khrushchev's pet virgin lands project in Kazakhstan. Certain to come under scrutiny will be the most violent outburst of discontent reported from Russia in years, last summer's riots in the southern city of Novocherkassk, which ended with the killing of hundreds of workers and housewives who protested against high prices and poor working conditions (TIME, Oct. 19). Moscow denied the whole thing, but according...
...also took place in Grozny, an oil center in the north Caucasus; Donetsk, center of the Donbas coal fields; Yaroslavl, in the Upper Volga, where workers in a tire factory staged a sitdown strike; and even Moscow, where there were mass protest meetings at the Moskvich compact-car plant. Khrushchev himself seems to have drawn the lesson of these events. Said he last July in his native village of Kalinovka: "We have carried out a great revolution to give the people the good things of life. If these things are not available, people will say: 'What do we need...