Word: khrushchevism
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...addition to covering and analyzing the week's news, TIME occasionally offers its readers a bonus: an advance look at the memoirs of historic figures. Nikita Khrushchev, Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter are among the world leaders whose books have been excerpted in the magazine. The current selection is something of a break with tradition: the author, Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, was virtually unknown outside diplomatic and political circles. Only with the sensational revelations in his new book, Breaking with Moscow, does he emerge from the shadowy world of superpower espionage. Last week's eleven-page excerpt carried...
...Khrushchev and Kennedy met in Vienna in June 1961. Leonid Zamyatin, deputy chief of the Department of the U.S. in the Foreign Ministry, told me about it. Zamyatin's amazing aplomb and self-assurance helped compensate for a lack of talent and enabled him to promote himself. He later became director-general of TASS and eventually chief of the Central Committee's International Information Department. With Georgi Arbatov and Vadim Zagladin, he was part of a troika of the most familiar Soviet faces appearing in the West when the Kremlin needed to influence public opinion...
...Khrushchev figured that Kennedy would accept almost anything to avoid nuclear war. The lack of confidence the President displayed during both the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961 and the Berlin Wall crisis four months later further confirmed this view. At the end of 1961 I attended a meeting in the office of Khrushchev's personal assistants. Someone remarked that Khrushchev, to put it mildly, didn't think very highly of Kennedy. At that moment, the Premier entered the room and immediately began to lecture us about Kennedy's "wishy-washy" behavior, saying: "I know for certain that Kennedy...
...installing several dozen medium-range missiles in Cuba, Khrushchev aimed to create a nuclear "fist" close to the U.S. The Soviet Union could get a "cheap" nuclear deterrent that would threaten New York, Washington and other vital centers along the East Coast, accomplishing much with very little...
...Kremlin's obsession with continuity is confirmed by former Diplomat Arkady Shevchenko, the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect since World War II (see SPECIAL SECTION). Says he: "They have never decided on a new leader before the old one is dead"--or, in the case of Nikita Khrushchev, deposed by collective agreement. Adds Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a Soviet expert at Washington's Brookings Institution: "How could it be otherwise when it is an autocratic, dictatorial, almost monarchical system? The only difference is there is no biological heir...