Word: khrushchevism
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...missions, projecting the preferred Soviet image of stolid gray; in Kiev. The son of a foundry worker, Podgorny had a lackluster early career as a bureaucrat in the Ukraine before being brought into the Politburo in 1960 and into the Secretariat of the Central Committee in 1963. As Nikita Khrushchev's loyal protégé, he seemed his probable successor, but following Khrushchev's 1964 ouster, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev elbowed Podgorny into the largely powerless presidency and ultimately jettisoned him altogether...
...lost weight. The sordid tale continues in John Dean's second book Lost Honor, for Watergate buffs who haven't yet Lost Interest. From his New Jersey hideaway, Richard Nixon continues to roop royalties with Leaders, a collection of his recollections about such world himinaries as Churchill. De Gaulle, Khrushchev and Chou En-Lai. Other Presidential publications are Jimmy Carter's memoirs, Keeping Faith, and Nancy Reagan's To Love a Child, accounts of the First Lady's own official baby--the Foster Grandparent Program...
...follows the lead of his predecessors, Andropov may also go after a post in the government. Brezhnev assumed the job of President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1977, thus becoming titular head of state. Both Stalin and Khrushchev held the post of Premier or Chairman of the Council of Ministers...
Supreme power in the U.S.S.R. has changed hands only four times before. Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 and made way for Joseph Stalin, who died 29 years later, to be replaced briefly by Georgi Malenkov, who was outmaneuvered by Nikita Khrushchev, who in turn was ousted by Brezhnev in 1964. The changeovers in Moscow might as well have occurred on another planet. U.S. statesmen of those years had little understanding of what had happened, much less any anticipation of what was going to happen next, and still less any sense of what the U.S. could do about...
...warming of the international climate touched off a thaw inside the U.S.S.R. Partly because he had attended his first summit meeting with Western leaders the year before in Geneva, Khrushchev felt able to launch his destalinization campaign and begin releasing prisoners from the Gulag Archipelago in 1956. This time American diplomacy had helped to improve conditions within the Soviet Union. But in the absence of clear, consistent ideas about how the Soviet system really works, American efforts to make that system more compatible with U.S. interests and values have been doomed to repeat old errors and commit new ones...