Word: khrushchevism
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...said Khrushchev, "only madmen and maniacs launch a call for a new war." Why, in these "totally changed historical conditions," should Communists keep "mechanically repeating" Lenin's 1918 dictum that war between capitalist and Communist states is "inevitable...
...Said Khrushchev, "We live in a time when we have neither Marx nor Engels nor Lenin with us. If we act like children who, studying the alphabet, compile words from letters, we shall not get to go very...
...downgraded Stalin now, in effect, downgraded Lenin too? Bulgarian Party Boss Todor Zhivkov, rising in his turn to hail the supreme chief, pronounced Khrushchev's speech "historic." The other satellite chieftains chimed in. But Communist China's Delegate Peng Chen was not impressed. Peking newspapers heaped scorn on "modern revisionists" who, "frightened out of their wits by the imperialists' blackmail of nuclear war, exaggerated the consequences of the destructiveness of nuclear war and begged imperialism for peace at any cost." The same newspapers noted only in a sentence that Khrushchev had also made some remarks and received...
...Khrushchev was feeling cocky about his stature at home as well as abroad. At a reception in Bucharest, Nikita casually told a story of how his fellow Presidium members nearly deposed him in the 1957 leadership showdown. Said Khrushchev, as the jaws of listening comrades dropped: "Bulganin, my friend for more than 20 years, told me: 'We are seven against your four.' I replied that this may be mathematically correct, but in politics things are different. Although in mathematics two plus two are four, this does not apply...
...satellites for Soviet benefit, COMECON was transformed into some thing more palatable after the 1956 Polish and Hungarian risings had compelled the Russians to pour $1.5 billion in emergency aid into the satellite lands. Communist rulers of the seven satellite nations pledged their peoples' labors to help Nikita Khrushchev overtake and "bury" the capitalist West through a planned ''international division of labor." In Bucharest last week, Nikita Khrushchev crowed: "Obviously the imperialists do not like our cooperation. They would like our countries to be like the team in the well-known fable in which the crayfish...