Word: khrushchevism
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...Russian literature at Yale, and then at Oxford, he worked as a 1969 summer trainee at TIME's Moscow bureau and has returned to the Soviet Union nearly a dozen times on reporting assignments. In 1970 and 1974 he translated and edited the two volumes of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs. His interests also led to a concern about arms control. Says Talbott: "At the most basic level, avoiding nuclear war is what Soviet-American relations are all about...
...came. Many went home and saw the fireballs in their dreams. When the Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962, instead of hiding under their desks, children filed into school chapels and prayed that John F. Kennedy would be vindicated in his decision to face down Nikita Khrushchev. Again, giant mushroom clouds grew only in dreams...
...losing side of an overkill gap. Wildly excessive, not to mention expensive, programs were justified on both sides in the interests of preserving a "balance of terror." Nonetheless, the nightmare of actual war receded somewhat into the subconscious of civilization. Partly because of the scare that Kennedy and Khrushchev had given the world over Cuba, the U.S. and the Soviet Union buckled down to the serious pursuit of agreements that would diminish the chances of nuclear war. With only modest successes and numerous stalls and setbacks, that effort continued in earnest until late in the Carter Administration, when it became...
...beer from the jeep. Brezhnev's split personality-alternalively boastful and insecure, belligerent and mellow-was in plain view as we ate in that alfresco setting. The truculence appeared in his discussion of China. He spoke of his brother, who had worked there as an engineer before Khrushchev removed all Soviet advisers. He had found the Chinese treacherous, arrogant, beyond the human pale. They were cannibalistic in the way they destroyed their top leaders (an amazing comment from a man who had launched his career during Stalin's purges); they might well, in fact, be cannibals. Now China...
...Stalin's. The dictator gave Suslov major roles in a series of bloody purges costing 20 million lives that began in 1931 and ended only with Stalin's death in 1953. A member of the ruling elite since 1947, Suslov kept his top-level posts under Khrushchev and Brezhnev. As the Politburo member in charge of ideology, international Communism and China, Suslov was instrumental in crushing the 1956 Hungarian revolution, and he presided over the final ideological rupture between Moscow and Peking...