Word: khrushchevism
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...remains nonetheless an exceptionally energetic man for his years. After an interview with Khrushchev that lasted nearly three hours, Look Publisher Gardner Cowles said last week that the Soviet Premier seemed to be "in extremely good, vigorous health." Khrushchev himself assured the 14th Congress of the Young Communist League: "I am working overtime. According to Soviet law I already have the right not to work. Where must I spend the energy? Must I take it to the grave with me? No. All the energy must be put into work for the welfare of society." Indeed, it was not health...
Last week, nearly four months after his deadline, talks continued in Washington on the Berlin issue; Dean Rusk seemed ready to offer Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin some of the semi-concessions that the U.S. had suggested before* but stood firm on all essentials. Khrushchev's boldest move in 1961 was to raise the Berlin Wall; today it seems less like a master stroke than a monument to the misery of 100 million souls imprisoned in East Europe...
...nuclear competition, by exploding 120 megatons last fall, Khrushchev merely goaded the U.S. to end its own three-year moratorium on testing. Even Khrushchev's compelling space triumphs have paled since the U.S. gave the world a ringside seat for John Glenn's flight...
Paper Utopia. In Khrushchev's script, the crowning achievement was to have been last October's 22nd Party Congress at which delegates from 81 Communist nations dutifully ratified the Khrushchev Code, a glittering prospectus for Communism's future by which Nikita hoped to add Khrushchevism to Marxism-Leninism. Yet his paper utopia seemed impossibly remote to most Russians. As a thundering anticlimax, Khrushchev in March unveiled his new blueprint for agriculture, leaving no doubt that the inertia and inefficiency of Russia's farm system will not be overcome in Khrushchev's lifetime, if ever...
With its home sector in disarray, there was some evidence that Red China may be willing to resolve its ideological quarrel with the Soviet Union. Before the Congress. Chou En-lai protested that China, as always, was "firmly and unswervingly" a friend of Russia, paid lip service to the Khrushchev line-usually derided in China-of peaceful coexistence with non-Communist countries...