Word: khrushchevism
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Stalin quickly recognized Kosygin's administrative skills, and promoted him into the Politburo in less than a decade. Soon after, the dictator turned on his protégé during a purge of Leningrad party officials in 1949-1950. Nikita Khrushchev recalled that Kosygin's life "was hanging by a thread. Kosygin must have drawn a lucky lottery ticket." Again, in late 1952, Kosygin's life was in jeopardy when Stalin demoted him and denounced one of his close colleagues...
Once there were three. After Nikita Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, the mantle of Soviet leadership fell to a power-sharing troika: Leonid Brezhnev as Communist Party chief, Nikolai Podgorny as President, and Alexei Kosygin as Prime Minister. Slowly and then surely, Brezhnev emerged as the dominant figure. In 1977, Podgorny was shunted aside and Brezhnev added the presidency to his other powerful post, relegating Kosygin to a much diminished role. Last week the troika became...
...discussing Mao Tse-tung, who has been downgraded since his death in 1976, Deng said that "we shall not do to Mao what Khrushchev did to Stalin." But Mao's "unhealthy thinking, ultra-leftist ideas, and patriarchal behavior" had led to the Cultural Revolution, "a civil war in which many people died." When Fallaci suggested that more people died under Stalin than during the Cultural Revolution, Deng responded: "I am not sure about that. Not sure...
Pasternak cabled his acceptance of the award saying "infinitely grateful, touched, proud, surprised, overwhelmed." Six days later he declined it "in view of the meaning given the award by the society in which I live." He then wrote a letter to Nikita Khrushchev pleading not to be expelled from the U.S.S.R. In spite of these and other concessions, the attacks against him scarcely subsided, and he died in disgrace...
...recent months Soviet authorities have arrested key Christian leaders and clamped down on the religious activities of believers. Is this the beginning of a purge reminiscent of Stalin's and Khrushchev's antireligious campaigns? If we in the West remain silent, it could...