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...Sergei Khrushchev, one of seven new fellows at the Kennedy School of Government's IOP, is the son of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier who faced off against Kennedy during the missile crisis. The second Soviet fellow--Melor Sturua--wrote speeches for the elder Khrushchev while working for the Soviet newspaper Izvestia...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: First Soviet Fellows Join IOP | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...While Khrushchev and Sturua spend the semester at the IOP, Alexander Merkushev, an editor for the Soviet Tass news agency, will be a fellow at the Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: First Soviet Fellows Join IOP | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...work on the bomb that initiated his now famous political activism. Shocked at the thousands of lives being lost by scientifically unneccessary nuclear tests designed for purely power-brokering purposes, he urged Khrushchev to cancel tests that were duplicating earlier efforts. Although this request was refused and the nuclear test killed thousands of Soviets, he expresses pride in the fact that his encouragement was largely responsible for the Moscow Limited Test Ban Treaty which eliminated tests in the atmosphere, ocean, and space...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: Dissident, Genius and Countryman | 7/27/1990 | See Source »

...urgency, an old joke is making the rounds in Moscow. It may not be a knee slapper, but the times make it worth retelling. Shifts in Soviet leadership have historically moved from the bald to the hirsute: from the chrome-dome Lenin to the brush-cut Stalin; from Khrushchev to Brezhnev; from Andropov to Chernenko. Which brings everyone to Mikhail Gorbachev, who is nearly as bald as a darning egg, and to the upstart Boris Yeltsin, whose mane of graying locks ruffles conspicuously these days in the winds of change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chrome-Dome Scenario | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

Aleksy, like all bishops who emerged during the Khrushchev-Brezhnev period, had to bite his lip and say nothing about the constant persecution of the church, but he managed to avoid outright dishonesty. A pre-election article by Aleksy in a church journal mingled traditional views with support of Gorbachev's reforms and ecological activism. In a sermon last month at the Valaam monastery, Aleksy eloquently lamented communism's mass murder of clergy and destruction of churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Victory for A Dark Horse | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

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