Word: khrushchevism
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...Khrushchev in 1955: "We wish to live in peace, tranquillity. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin, he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle...
Government. He discovers a Khrushchev more friendly to the Pope than to John Kennedy; John XXIII maneuvering behind the backs of the Vatican Curia's professional antiCommunists; and CIA Director John McCone, a Catholic, warning his Pontiff that he is going too far. This is a valuable history for anyone attracted to modern diplomacy and Vatican intrigue...
Alexei Kosygin, 76, pragmatic politician-engineer who, with Leonid Brezhnev, wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 and served as Premier until, in failing health, he quit his post last October...
...early supporter of Khrushchev's, Kosygin continued his rise in the Soviet hierarchy as a Deputy Premier after Khrushchev was made party chief in 1953. Following the Kremlin conspiracy to oust Khrushchev in 1964, Kosygin and Brezhnev divided up the two posts that their predecessor had held simultaneously. Brezhnev took over the much more powerful job of Party Secretary, while Kosygin became Premier, which put him in control of the day-to-day management of the Soviet government. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger viewed Kosygin as a pragmatist, with "a glacial exterior" who was "orthodox if not rigid...
DIED. Alexei Kosygin, 76, longtime Soviet Premier who with Leonid Brezhnev and Nikolai Podgorny formed the "troika" that wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964; of a heart attack; in Moscow (see WORLD...