Word: kosygin
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...Dior Look. Russia's largest domestic problem has always been agriculture. Under Brezhnev and Kosygin, the collective farms have been given price increases; collective farmers have been permitted to add to their private plots, have had their income taxes reduced, their prices raised as well. Most important of all-if Moscow follows through-is a new five-year plan doubling the amount of investment in agriculture, which at $9 billion represents a massive shift in resource allocation to what has always been the stepchild of the Soviet economy...
...form, was recently given a three-day hearing at a symposium sponsored by officials of the Communist Youth organization and the Soviet Composers' Union. Though no firm conclusion as to its merits for Soviet society was reached, Russian jazz buffs were encouraged. Among other things going for them: Kosygin has one of the largest jazz record collections inside Russia. More important, the duumvirate fired Khrushchev's hated chief ideologue Leonid Ilyichev, replaced him with Party Secretary Petr Demichev. Demichev has informed Soviet artists and writers that the party will no longer interfere in matters of style, though...
Primus Inter Pares. Brezhnev and Kosygin have done less well in foreign affairs, in which they are clearly less competent and less interested. Their primary problem, the quarrel with Peking, has hardly been softened, despite a peace-making trip by Kosygin to Red China, and the Kremlin has even less control over Eastern Europe's "satellites" than did Khrushchev in his final years. In a recent speech, Demichev went so far as to explicitly endorse the independence of every Communist state; unlike Khrushchev, the new leaders know how to keep a dignified silence in the face of Peking...
Widely regarded as a caretaker government, Khrushchev's successors have inevitably been scrutinized with gimlet eyes by Western Kremlinologists for who's on top-or likely to be. Nearly all agree that the burly Brezhnev, as party boss, is primus inter pares in a committee government including Kosygin, Podgorny, the ailing Suslov and Mikoyan-in roughly that order...
...official photo of the Kremlin talking to the cosmonauts on the last Russian space flight. Whereas Nikita would have appeared all alone, beaming into the telephone, some dozen officials were hovering around. Up front, seated at a desk, were the top men: Brezhnev was actually talking to the spacemen; Kosygin had the other telephone on the desk beside him, and Mikoyan, by stretching hard, just barely made the scene...