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...Soviet Union women have the same status as men, and they may be seen laboring in road gangs as well as on assembly lines. But sex equality does not extend up the ladder of achievement. "One cannot overlook the fact," First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev told the recent 20th Congress of the Communist Party, "that in a number of party and local government organizations women are seldom promoted to leading posts." Last week Khrushchev himself promoted Ekaterina Furtseva to be an alternate member of the Party Presidium (which succeeded the old Politburo), the highest post ever held by a woman...
...message that Russia's new rulers flashed to the faithful last week, from the most important Russian Communist Party Congress in years. With mechanical unanimity and "stormy applause" the 1,355 delegates to the 20th Congress voted da on the new line and adjourned. Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev did not even have to make a closing speech, explained the chairman, because everybody had agreed with him. The new line...
Rewriting the Past. At the Congress, Nikita Khrushchev, clearly the nearest to being the new "one man," led the other bosses in condemning "the cult of the one man" and playing up the "Leninist" principle of "collective leadership" (TIME, Feb. 27). But in the long hours of speeches that followed there were interesting variations...
...singled out the name of an all-but-forgotten Stalin victim named Kossior as an example of the kind of injustice done by one-man leaders. What made his name significant was that Kossior, a Ukrainian leader who lost out in the late '30s, was purged so that Nikita Khrushchev could get his job. The new collective leaders are not above such instructive hints to one another...
...very first session, even their dutiful applause came in for criticism. As First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and the other big shots entered by a side door, they were greeted by a noisy standing ovation. Khrushchev strode to the microphone to say, "The Presidium has requested that the delegates not applaud every time we enter. Behave in the Communist way and show you are masters of this congress...