Word: nikita
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...Wladyslaw Gomulka, though he has a long Communist career of knuckling under, this was a humiliating concession, but, if he wanted to survive, Gomulka would almost certainly have to make far greater and more humiliating concessions in the future. The consensus was that Nikita Khrushchev was unlikely to rest content until the stubborn Poles were once again nothing but Soviet serfs...
...four men who were hanged or shot in Budapest last week were not executed in punishment for their crimes, real or fancied. They were killed to alert the Communist world to a major Russian policy decision-a decision so important that Nikita Khrushchev felt obliged to summon four of his principal ambassadors (including ever-smiling Mikhail Menshikov, busy-bee Washington partygoer and TV performer) back to Moscow for conferences, and to call an extraordinary meeting of the 130-man Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R...
...surface, sometimes , boiling over into open defiance. Convinced that Stalinist rigidity could not keep the lid on this pot forever, Stalin's successors tried to master the situation by easing up Moscow's pressure on the satellites. In one of history's most humiliating about-faces, Nikita Khrushchev weepingly repudiated Stalinism, paid court to Tito and gave gingerly acceptance to the doctrine of "many roads to socialism." In time, China's Mao Tse-tung followed the Russian lead, proclaimed the wildly un-Marxist doctrine, "Let all flowers bloom...
...Broken & Bitter." To pragmatic Nikita Khrushchev, what all this meant was that liberalization was a failure and that it was time to revert to a hard line with the satellites. He may have been pushed to this conclusion, but on the record of his career of reversing himself, he was capable of reaching it on his own. In true Communist fashion he chose to serve notice of his decision not in a proclamation but in action-the execution of Nagy, Maleter & Co. Nor did anyone in the Communist world miss the point. Poland's Gomulka, described by his associates...
...Nikita Khrushchev's Russia the "new class" of elite bureaucrats is learning to have class. Moscow's GUM department store now features the sack, as well as Western-style swimsuits (see cuts). Explains the fashion show commentator: "The masses will grow accustomed to dresses as high as 14 inches from the floor." But neither the masses nor the class will be able to buy the dresses-only the materials and patterns. The cost for one dress: about two weeks...