Word: khrushchevism
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...Khrushchev's relatives and friends feared, however, that the former Kremlin ruler had sometimes gone too far in fulminating against the shortcomings of the Soviet system, denouncing political figures who were still alive and exposing what the authorities would consider state secrets. So, to avert reprisals, they held back some of the tapes...
Last year -- with the Soviet Union officially willing as never before to hear the often ugly truth about its past, with Mikhail Gorbachev emulating some of Khrushchev's reforms and with the "special pensioner" of Petrovo- Dalneye undergoing a posthumous rehabilitation -- TIME acquired the missing tapes. It was no wonder they had been kept secret: in them, Khrushchev sheds startling new light on Stalin's complicity in the murder that launched the savage purges of the 1930s; on a secret overture to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime during World War II; and on Fidel Castro's apocalyptic recklessness during...
What follows is excerpted from Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes, to be published in October by Little, Brown...
Stalin knew perfectly well who might have voted against him -- certainly not the likes of Khrushchev, who had risen through the ranks under Stalin and who deified him. No, Stalin understood that it was the old cadres from Lenin's time who were displeased with...
...Comrade Stalin," I said in surprise, "I'm Khrushchev...