Word: khrushchevism
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...kind of thing Khrushchev could hope for from the neutrals, once they got over their initial indignation, was already manifesting itself in Belgrade, where a chorus of neutralist voices urged a summit meeting between Russia and the West to negotiate their differences-with the implied notion that the West should negotiate something, anything, that would appease the terrible wrath of Nikita Khrushchev...
There is little inherent danger in renewed testing itself, particularly if the tests are kept underground. The risk of atomic war still depends, as it has for years, on the simple decision of the man in the Kremlin. What is alarming is Khrushchev's new willingness to flirt with terror. Conceivably, he could misjudge the resolution of the West, and bring on himself and the world a war he never expected. In the weeks and years ahead, the West must steel itself for another kind of test-a test of nerve...
World Conscience? Despite Khrushchev's blatant disregard for their opinions, next day the delegates earnestly began to discuss how to make their opinions felt in world politics. In his keynote speech, Tito grumbled, "Small and medium-sized countries are considered as a kind of reserve and voting machine in international forums. Nonaligned countries can no longer reconcile themselves to that role. They have a right to participate in the solving of problems...
...magazine is Nikita Khrushchev's reply to persistent criticism of the Kremlin's ill-concealed antiSemitism. For years, the Soviet Premier argued that Russia's Jews were really not interested in Jewish culture, but the 1959 Soviet census destroyed his argument. Of 2,268,000 Russian Jews, nearly half a million listed Yiddish as their native tongue. Almost as if he were admitting his error, Khrushchev authorized the publication of Sovietish Heimland...
...Stalin's secret police during World War II, and of holding the job of political commissar. One of the few Yiddish writers to escape interrogation, torture, and death during the Stalin purges, Vergelis got right to work at the politics of survival during the thaw that followed Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin. After the Suez invasion, Vergelis dashed off a Yiddish poem furiously attacking Israel. "We will force our enemies to surrender their antiSoviet armor," said he, in a bitter attack on all anti-Communist Jews outside the Soviet Union...