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...news and analysis from correspondents in the field. TIME called on the resources of its library of past Russian events, and its "Russian Desk," presided over by two ex-Russian scholars. From all of these sources, Associate Editor Godfrey Blunden assembled and wrote TIME'S stories of Nikita Khrushchev's historic coup...
...Noted the "amazing" charge by Soviet Dictator Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS) that U.S. efforts to develop a "clean" H-bomb amounted to "a stupid thing," replied promptly that "avoidance of mass human destruction in an atomic war is and has been a prime objective of the Administration no less than the aim of eliminating the possibility of war itself. Such efforts-to which the U.S. is dedicated-are and will be continuing...
...others" were powerful enough to do the dirty work, and did not have to clear everything with Khrushchev. As Khrushchev strode confidently through Communist Czechoslovakia, he was followed by tanned, blond, smiling State Security Boss Ivan Serov, watchdog of the Communist state and liquidator of millions. Many of Nikita's more reckless, vodka-primed speeches to the Czechs were drastically edited by other hands before being passed out to the press: Did Stalin let someone else, without his say-so, edit his remarks? The easy confidence of the happy tourists reflected their satisfaction at the turn of events...
...communiqué was more softly worded than the one that had ousted Security Boss Lavrenty Beria exactly four years earlier (only to be shot in six months), but beneath its repetitious, doctrinaire prose, the voice of Nikita Khrushchev was clearly heard. The three party bigwigs had long opposed Khrushchev on six specific counts: They had 1) "sought to frustrate so vastly important a measure as the reorganization of industrial management"; 2) "failed to recognize the necessity for increased material incentives for the collective-farm peasantry"; 3) stubbornly resisted "the measures which the . . . party was carrying out to do away with...
...Path to Power. Nikita Khrushchev, in appearance a man of headlong exuberance, had waited 51 months to make his coup. When it came, it was as unexpected and as ruthless as anything Stalin had done. But there was a world of difference in Khrushchev's approach to power. Whereas Stalin, utterly contemptuous of party or world opinion, had purged the army and party structure wide and deep, Khrushchev had gone to great lengths to establish support among the party rank and file, particularly in the provinces, and to make himself a popular figure with peasants and workers...