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...Czar Nicholas II, when he accompanied his father on an expedition that reached Siberia. His last was in 1983, at the invitation of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov. In between he negotiated his own private mineral concessions with Trotsky and spent more time with Stalin than any other American. Nikita Khrushchev liked the old capitalist so much that he jokingly offered...
Molotov, 96, served as Foreign Minister during and after Stalin's regime but was ousted from power by Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. Molotov was interviewed by Moscow News, a weekly paper. The article skirted political issues, merely presenting a personality profile on the friendly great grandfather. The paper, however, said Molotov approved of the loosening of limitations on editorial freedom that has accompanied Gorbachev's recent "openness" campaign...
...Soviet appeal for "practical results," Dobrynin recalled his own extensive experience in summitry. The meeting of Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev in the U.S. in 1959, as well as the subsequent summit talks between Khrushchev and John Kennedy in Vienna, were "disastrous," said Dobrynin, because both sessions had been inadequately prepared. By contrast, he continued, the summit meetings during the '70s, involving Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, had been essentially successful because they were well planned and the outcomes known in advance. Thus, according to a senior U.S. official, considerable time last week "was spent on making sure...
Gorbachev aggressively reminded Washington that he can be a tough customer. He scoffed at a counterproposal by President Reagan for eliminating medium- range nuclear missiles by 1990 and, along the way, displayed a penchant for bareknuckle bullying reminiscent of Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, the General Secretary showed little inclination to tone down his anti-U.S. rhetoric. Quoting Karl Marx, he described capitalism as a "hideous pagan idol, who would not drink nectar but from the skulls of the slain." The U.S., he declared, is "the metropolitan center of imperialism." In part such pronouncements were intended to appease the party...
Gorbachev is a realist who does not make grandiose promises. At a 1961 party congress, Nikita Khrushchev unveiled a program predicting that Soviet citizens by 1980 would enjoy free transport and housing, the end of manual labor and living standards that exceeded those of any capitalist country. Instead of placebos, Gorbachev's 15-year plan sets targets: industrial output and national income will double by the end of the century, and labor productivity must grow by 130%. To meet those goals, the economy is supposed to expand at a 4.7% annual rate, about twice the pace of the past decade...