Word: khrushchevism
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...Molotov is in the middle of what may be Communism's most significant internal split since the Stalin-Trotsky quarrel in the '20s. On one side are ranged the dominant forces in the Soviet Presidium and most of the world's Communist parties, which support Khrushchev's avowed policies of "peaceful coexistence" with the capitalist nations, his campaign against Stalin's terroristic "cult of personality," and his efforts to raise the living standards of the Russian people. On the opposite side are Red China and its tiny, faraway ally, Albania; they are apparently more willing...
...witnessing the extraordinary spectacle of two Communist states hurling at each other the kind of blasts they ordinarily reserve for the West. Radio Moscow accused Albania of mass arrests and purges in which a pregnant woman Communist leader opposed to Dictator Enver Hoxha was executed. Hoxha, in turn, accused Khrushchev of "hideous activities," including the use of such "poisoned weapons as slander and brutal interference in our internal affairs...
...open war of words is obviously having a demoralizing effect on the Communist world. But in one respect, it is to Khrushchev's advantage: it reinforces the idea in the West that he is not a bad fellow compared to the Stalinists, and it even leads such Soviet experts as Britain's Edward Crankshaw to suggest that Mr. K.'s Russia is slowly moving toward "a species of democracy...
...Khrushchev at any rate was not worried enough by the situation to stay home. Last week, he was off on another of his periodic missions to rural pigsties and haylofts, while his chief international troubleshooter, Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, was on a swing through West Africa. Artful Anastas got a coolly correct reception in Guinea, where he tried to mend some fences; the Soviet ambassador, since expelled, had stirred up demonstrations against President Sekou Toure, a Marxist but apparently not enough of one for Moscow. In Red-leaning Mali and Ghana, Mikoyan was treated like an honorary African, grinned while...
Meanwhile Khrushchev, on a tour of Byelorussia, told hog farmers that he was "not here to read Pushkin's poems. You will read poems without me. I came to expose shortcomings." To dairy farmers, the peasant Premier proposed a taste test to decide between his recommendation for high protein cattle feed (sugar beets, peas) or simple hay, which some scientists favor. Khrushchev, who obviously can afford more liberalism toward cattle than toward comrades, suggested that the cows decide. Said he: "Well now, Burenushka [Bossy], what fodder do you vote...