Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modicum of Courage. Eastern Europe's breakaway from Russian rule began in 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin at the Soviet 20th Party Congress in his seven-hour "secret speech." By cracking the icon of invincibility that had held Russia in thrall, Khrushchev also unlocked-unwittingly-the forces of Eastern European nationalism. Says one Washington observer: "Nationalism is the strongest force in Eastern Europe today, stronger than ideology, stronger than the Communist parties themselves." Columbia's Kremlinologist Zbigniew Brzezinski puts it flatly: "East Europe is where the dream of Communist internationalism lies buried...
...Russia, a new five-year plan jettisoned Nikita Khrushchev's dream of overtaking U.S. heavy industry by 1970 and focused instead on a goal that Red China's rulers condemn as pure capitalistic decadence-making life more pleasant for the people. Throughout the world, Peking seeks to incite "wars of national liberation." Yet in Red China itself, noted Columnist Joseph Alsop, the regime's paranoid leaders have become so distrustful of the younger generation that they have shipped all members of the three upper classes at pace-setting Peking University to Sinkiang, the Chinese Siberia, "to improve...
Soviet economic plans usually seem more like daydreams than serious forecasts of intended achievement. The classic was Nikita Khrushchev's seven-year plan (1959-65), which promised to make Russia a Communist Utopia by 1970, complete with the world's highest standard of living and largest industrial production. Moscow's new leaders are more realistic. Last week Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin unveiled a new five-year plan that takes up where Khrushchev's seven-year plan leaves off. Gone was the old bombast, the exuberance, the phony dreams. And gone-for once-was the promise...
While in the Middle East, he came to know Nasser well, and predicted -a year before it happened-that the colonel would emerge as the real power in Egypt. Bell was at Belgrade's Zemun Airport to witness the arrival of Russia's Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin; he reported the visit that drew world attention to Mr. K., vodka for vodka. Later, when Khrushchev made the sensational but top-secret Kremlin speech that demolished Stalin, Bell was in Moscow and got wind of it. During two tours of duty in Bonn, he covered the Berlin Wall...
...Nikita Khrushchev's day, such a public protest might have landed Esenin-Volpin in the Lubyanka. In fact, he was released with nothing more punishing than a lecture on "orderly public procedures" and a warning that he could expect to be denounced in the press. What is more, it seemed that Sinyavsky-Tertz and Daniel-Arzhak would indeed receive a public trial, probably next month in Moscow. That did not mean the pair would get off scot free, but it was progress of a sort...