Word: khrushchevism
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...After Communist partisans led by Hoxha defeated German occupiers and internal opponents in 1944 and grabbed power, Hoxha imposed a centrally planned economy and established total control through the feared secret police, the Sigurimi. In the years that followed, he distanced Albania from other Communist countries. Enraged by Nikita Khrushchev's de- Stalinization campaign, Hoxha broke with Moscow in 1961. When the Chinese began to experiment with reform in the late '70s, he denounced them as "revisionists," and effectively cut off economic ties...
...Molotov had died of a "lengthy and grave illness." The man who had lived in almost total obscurity since his expulsion from the Communist Party in 1962 was laid to rest in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, not far from the grave of the Kremlin leader who ousted him, Nikita Khrushchev...
...current ferment is reminiscent of the early 1960s, when Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev allowed the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first detailed description of life in ! the Soviet Gulag. That thaw gradually congealed after Khrushchev's ouster. It remains to be seen how long Gorbachev will leave Soviet culture open to the winds of free inquiry...
...could not be dismissed as a temporary thaw, she argued. True, the Soviet Union has never since returned to the depths of Stalinism. But it has not moved significantly in the opposite direction either. Instead, it has been subject to cycles of thaw and freeze. The relative liberalization under Khrushchev was significantly reversed under Brezhnev. The cycle may be turning again. But the range of variation is narrow...
...remark clearly was aimed at Khrushchev, who came from peasant stock and is closely identified in the Soviet Union with the 1960s and with the corn-growing program...