Word: khrushchevism
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...next ten years Malinovsky stayed in the Far East. But as Khrushchev's star rose, so did Malinovsky's. In 1956, at the same party congress at which Khrushchev denounced the dead Stalin, Malinovsky at last became a full member of the Central Committee of Russia's Communist Party. Before long, he was Deputy in charge of ground forces, under Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov. Then, in 1957, Khrushchev turned on Zhukov. Resentment still smoulders over Nikita's shabby treatment of Zhukov. The army recognized Zhukov as the best soldier Soviet Russia had produced...
Hurray for Holocaust. And then there is massive Red China glowering in the wings. According to knowledgeable Russians and Eastern Europeans, Moscow's Stalinists are in good communication with Mao Tse-tung. Peking plainly wants no relaxation of tensions between the West and the Communist world. Khrushchev's economy may now be at the point where it can provide Russians with a few more of the amenities of life, but sprawling, primitive China can only hope to complete its revolution and its all-important industrialization through vast suffering-suffering that can most easily be justified to the Chinese...
...Turn. As the summit approached, Nikita Khrushchev must have found it harder and harder to brush off the complaint that his "soft" policy toward the West was not producing results. In fact, he undoubtedly agreed, being the agile fellow...
...turning point in Khrushchev's thinking apparently came in late April, when Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, in a speech to an A.F.L.-C.I.O. meeting, echoed Secretary Herter's warning that there was little prospect for significant agreements being reached at the summit, and implied that any progress at all depended on Soviet willingness to abandon its demands on West Berlin. Only a month before, sauntering through the Rambouillet gardens with the visiting Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle had concluded that Nikita was not going to press too hard at the summit. But five days after Dillon...
Down over Sverdlovsk. Khrushchev was plainly deciding to talk tough at the summit. Then came May Day. During the May Day parade in Moscow, Khrushchev and Malinovsky, up in the Red Square reviewing stand, were observed excitedly poring over a military map, and at one point, a messenger was sent dashing off carrying a note scribbled by Khrushchev. The U-2 had been downed over Sverdlovsk...