Word: khrushchevism
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...June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova, 26, began a three-day orbital voyage, becoming the first woman to break the shackles of the earth. Tereshkova returned to a hero's welcome in Moscow, including kisses from a beaming Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who held her up to the world as the symbol of the new Soviet woman...
...three main dangers. There is the fear of Germany, certainly since [Hitler's] invasion on June 22,1941. There is the fear of the U.S., beginning in the 1950s. Third, there is the fear of China, beginning in the early 1960s with the split between Mao and Khrushchev. These are the threats which the Russians feel and which they talk about when they meet in the Politburo and exchange views about strategy...
...look idiotic wearing one. That is often true, but need not be. Fred Astaire may be God's best human design for a serious hat (or for something more problematic, like the straw boater). But even short fat men, who think that serious hats turn them into Nikita Khrushchev, can usually find one that makes them look better than they deserve. Oddly, women often wear men's hats more handsomely than...
...people at ease, even those who might fear him. Still, there is no hint of the humanity that bubbled from Brezhnev when he was drinking vodka or hunting wild boar. Andropov has no record as a sportsman. He seems totally urban, in complete contrast to the rural flavor of Khrushchev and Brezhnev. It is assumed, but not proved, that Andropov spent his formative political years in Karelia, on the Finnish border. What he did during World War II is also sketchy. Presumably, Andropov was involved in the bitter fighting at Leningrad, but there is no public record...
...death of Stalin in 1953, the tiny Georgian with the trademark pincenez tried to bully his way to power by incorporating the Ministry of the Interior into his vast security empire. That incautious move roused a vengeance-minded Politburo to action. Beria was arrested and executed. First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, in a famous secret speech to the 20th Party Congress in 1956, vowed that the state security forces would be subservient to the principles of "revolutionary socialist legality." The KGB would be run by political appointees answerable to the party leadership, men like Andropov...