Word: khrushchevism
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...Coexistence" Quarrel. From the time of Khrushchev's posthumous assassination of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress in 1956-a move about which Peking had received no forewarning-other serious disagreements developed. For one thing, the Chinese were opposed (as they said last week) to washing Marxist dirty linen in public; they also feared, reported British Historian G. F. Hudson, the restoration of "the exclusive supreme authority which had belonged to the Kremlin under Stalin and which Khrushchev, in spite of his repudiation of 'Stalinism,' was in practice trying to preserve...
Believing themselves entitled to a voice in Communism's world policy, the Chinese defended Poland's right to follow its own "road to socialism," urged quick suppression of the Hungarian revolt, refused to make peace with Tito. Peking fumed when Khrushchev, in 1958, suggested a summit meeting without inviting the Red Chinese. Peking's much-publicized opposition to Khrushchev's "peaceful coexistence" line has several facets. At home, this almost middle-class slogan threatens to dampen the revolutionary ardor Peking needs to justify the sacrifices of its own people. On the world scene, Red China would...
...another kind of test, Khrushchev's superbomb prompted many of those who respect or merely fear Russia to re-examine their consciences. In the U.N. a number of small nations that are normally reluctant to offend Moscow pluckily backed an emergency appeal to Khrushchev expressing "deep concern" over his scheduled 50-megaton explosion -though other small nations and neutrals eventually emasculated it. Britain's most influential Ban-the-Bomber, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who has been quicker to censure the U.S. than the U.S.S.R. for possessing nuclear arms, stormed out of an hour-long protest meeting with Russian embassy...
...Pygmy Cosmopolitan." Moscow's biggest literary furor in months was prompted by another Evtushenko poem, Bdbiy Yar, named for a ravine near Kiev where the Nazis massacred 52,000 Jews. In a moving lament that was also a call to resist the anti-Semitism of Khrushchev's Russia, Poet Evtushenko-who is not Jewish-mourned...
...they appear wildly eccentric against the puritan drabness of Khrushchev's Russia, few such poets can compete in nonconformity with Vladimir Mayakovsky, Stalin's poet laureate. Mayakovsky was a brilliant, brattish libertine who alternated between slavish drivel in praise of Communism and biting satires against it. Sickened by repression and criticism, he committed suicide in 1930. Stalin astounded Party hacks by decreeing that he was Russia's "best and most talented" poet, adding ominously: "Indifference to his work and memory is a crime." Independent-minded young Russians think none the better of Mayakovsky for Stalin...