Word: khrushchevism
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...Joseph Stalin; his most powerful and systematic weapon was the doctrine called "socialist realism,'' by which artists became "engineers of souls." whose only function was to mass-produce Communist propaganda. Literature started up again soon after Stalin's death. In the six years since Nikita Khrushchev demolished Stalin's godhead at the 20th Party Congress, Soviet writers have proclaimed, even if they have not always been free to practice, a new "literature of truth...
...guys, or firmennye (literally, foreign firms), go for white shirts and solid ties from France; but hard-to-get button-down shirts and striped ties from the U.S. Ivy League are the most. Bell-bottom trousers, longtime mark of Soviet orthodoxy, are worn only by servicemen, hayseeds, and Nikita Khrushchev...
...thrust it into the hands of two surprised West German tourists who were strolling down a Leningrad street. The tourists got it published abroad, and Naritsa got a visitation from the agents of the Committee of State Security (KGB); today he is under detention in a "mental home." Nikita Khrushchev, who remembers well that writers helped ignite Hungary's uprising, warned Soviet authors in 1957 that if they went too far, "my hand would not tremble on the trigger." Bureaucracy still battles stubbornly to control literature, but even Nikita himself concedes that books of "quality" are more important than...
...pictures each crisis as a physical ordeal, before which his blood-pressure must thump at the right level and his mind work coolly, cleared for action; and after which he must not relax too soon. His questioning of Hiss, his speech on the "Nixon Fund," and his interviews with Khrushchev are prizefights; the analogy occurs again and again...
Messiah & Marx. Washington, which has a team of Castrologists to interpret Castro just as it has a group of Kremlinologists to study Khrushchev, regarded the show as Castro's violent reaction to the increasingly bold Communist Party takeover. But Castro, who considers himself as much messiah as Marxist, refused to go quietly-and so did his wispy-mustached little brother Raúl. On Feb. 19, according to reports reaching Miami exiles, Raul shot and seriously wounded a party leader in Oriente province in an argument over who was boss...