Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing that satellite indoctrination had failed badly in such countries as Poland, Hungary and East Germany, Conant questioned whether it was a repudiation of communism or of Kremlin control...
Nikita Khrushchev, pudgy, hard-drinking son of Ukrainian peasantry, became dictator of Russia last week, grinning and triumphant after carrying out the most sweeping purge of top-level Kremlin Communists in almost 20 years...
...since the great purge of 1936-38 had so many big Kremlin names been dragged in the dirt. The charges against the first four ousted leaders had a Stalinist ring: they were accused of having "resorted to methods of intrigue and formed a collusion against the Central Committee"; i.e.,. they had opposed Boss Nikita, possibly attempted to ease him out of the key job of First Party Secretary. But Khrushchev had won out and, as is the Communist custom, was privileged to hurl the whole book of party crimes at the losers. As is also Communist custom...
...week big black government limousines had been rolling through Red Square and into the Kremlin, Top Soviet ambassadors had been recalled from abroad, and a June 30 flypast of Soviet planes had been canceled (on account of the muggy, sling weather, it was first suggested). But when a scheduled B. and K. trip to Prague was postponed, Muscovites, old in ways of Communists, knew that something big was brewing. The grapevine that takes the place of normal newspapers said that the party's Central Committee was meeting, and that big shifts were in the making. Then, early one grey...
...final testing of power came at a special meeting of the powerful, 130-odd-man party Central Committee, which lasted from June 22 to June 29. According to Polish Communists (who often have a good pipeline to the Kremlin), Molotov may even have sought the meeting, confident that his side had the top hand. Khrushchev proposed that the first item of the agenda should be the current situation of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Molotov countered with the proposal, meant to put Khrushchev on the defensive, that the international position be considered, "in the light of attempted imperialist...