Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Kremlin is admitting that Russia's 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...
...family moved to Moscow, Rostropovich joined his father's class at the Children's Music School, began teaching on his own at 15. At 19 he was appointed soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic, played in a trio with the famed Russian virtuosos, Pianist Emil Gilels and Violinist Leonid Kogan...
...part, Soviet Communism in the 1960s has mellowed considerably as its leaders have discovered that goulash is more palatable than gunpowder. Under Khrushchev and his successors, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the old, unbending creed of unconditional war against capitalism has yielded to the cautious dialogue of coexistence. It has had to, for the workers of the industrialized world today are not likely to be inveigled into violent assault on social systems that have given them so large a measure of prosperity...
Congress. With Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and Peking's Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-Ping attending, Bucharest had been billed as a head-on Sino-Soviet verbal slugfest. But the Rumanians attached "keep quiet" stickers to each invitation, and the result was a collection of docile guests whose most exciting time at the meeting was a five-hour, 93-page declaration of independence by their host, Ceausescu, that went considerably beyond anything Gheorghiu-Dej ever bruited...