Word: khrushchevism
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Whatever the motives, Khrushchev's decision was like a bucket of cold water to the U.S.'s new leaders. For Adlai Stevenson, dedicated to lessening cold war tensions, and long contemptuous of the brusque counterblast as a technique of foreign policy, the week had come as a shock, stimulating the strongest kind of change in a man essentially unschooled in the closeup rough-and-tumble of Communist diplomacy. For the new President of the U.S., Russia's attitude was a rude reminder that although the Kremlin's tactics might change, its strategy most emphatically does...
...Nikita Khrushchev is not to be conned that way. Khrushchev figures that he will get a summit meeting with Kennedy not because of how much or how little he smiles but simply because the sheer weight of Russia in today's world makes a summit meeting necessary sooner or later...
...week's work, Khrushchev would congratulate himself that he had once again stirred the world into a state of anxiety, a testament to his power but also to the apprehension the world holds for Communist ruthlessness...
...managed to tarnish the image of the U.N., and to diminish the effectiveness of its Secretary-General, even though the small nations rallied to Hammarskjold's defense. But Khrushchev also had his failures. The uncommitted nations refused to stampede. And if his actions were designed to test the mettle and temper of the new Kennedy Administration, he found it unmistakably firm...
Publication of this novel was held up for two years in the Soviet Union because of its "ideological deviations." Reportedly, it took Nikita Khrushchev himself to talk stubborn Author Sholokhov into revising the ending (although Sholokhov denies it), in which his Communist hero committed suicide after being jailed on false charges during the Stalin purges. Even with its patchy, rewritten last chapter - the hero is now killed by White counter-revolutionists - Harvest on the Don is an extraordinary book to come officially from Russia. It is frankly critical of much in Soviet life, and sings with a kind of individualism...