Word: kosygin
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...movie, all three hours of it, clearly reflects the post-Khrushchevian inclination of Brezhnev and Kosygin to make Soviet history more objective and less like a Communist morality play. If anything, Salvo is likely to accelerate that trend. At least it provoked Red Star, the army newspaper, to demand still greater realism in depicting Soviet historical figures. Salvo, complained the paper, portrayed Trotsky as "a midget, whose actions were downright silly. Yet how could such a midget mislead the people?" Obviously, declared Red Star's own hatchetman, "he was an experienced and powerful demagogue"-and should be shown...
Quiet as Hell. Did the arrest presage a new cultural crackdown? So far, the Brezhnev-Kosygin regime has taken a moderate approach to intellectuals, avoiding the shrill, savage attacks of the Khrushchev era. Khrushchev's cultural hatchet man, Leonid Ilyichev, has been removed; Stalin's pet geneticist, Trofim Lysenko, has been disavowed by Russian science; imaginative and critical writing appears frequently in Soviet publications so long as it remains within limits. More importantly, B. & K. seem to recognize the sheer public-relations value inherent in "liberalization." Says one Washington Kremlin-watcher: "These men would like to handle this...
Henceforth, said Kosygin, the government would sharply reduce its directives to the managers. Though the total wage fund will still be set, each factory boss may slice it up as he sees fit, handing out incentive pay and bonuses to reward efficiency. No longer will a factory's performance be measured by how much it produces but by how much it is able to sell. In a wide range of consumer industries, profit will measure a manager's effectiveness - and a portion of that profit may be kept for use in improving production through new tools...
Supplying the Bread. If such economic devices have a capitalist ring, Kosygin was not going to admit it. Anyone who talks of Russia's return to capitalism, he said, "only attests to wishful thinking." And though Kosygin's new measures represented the largest advance yet for the Western-style reform theories of Soviet economists like Evsei Liberman (TIME cover, Feb. 12), they were balanced by a tightening of the planning bureaucracy. Kosygin announced that the regional planning Sovnarkhozy set up by Khrushchev in 1957 would be abolished, and all Russian economic life put under 20 new national ministries...
...economic engine is painfully sputtering. Industrial growth and national income have both lost momentum since the early 1950s, now lag behind that of the U.S. Moreover, after a bumper crop in 1964, Soviet agriculture this year is again in trouble. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, in his speech following Kosygin's, felt compelled to assure the Central Committee that "everything has been done to assure normal supply of bread production...