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...What is a married man?" Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev asked an audience in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, and answered himself: "It is a man who wants to raise a family and to settle firmly in a new place." The emphasis was on the words "firmly" and "new place," for the audience was a group of young city men who are being sent east to help turn Siberian wasteland into golden harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Cold Comfort Farming | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Having already learned the benefits of rewriting their history, Russia's Communists have now decided to rewrite their bible: Das Kapital. Radio Moscow announced that Georgy Malenkov and his friends are worried about "serious faults" in the 1924 edition of Karl Marx, and have delegated Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev to prepare a new edition, eliminating unspecified errors and correcting "certain distortions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The King Georgy Version | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

Communist Party Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev, whose monitory voice is heard more loudly these days, last week condemned the wasteful skyscrapers, some of which, he said, looked like churches. Said Khrushchev: "The architect needs a beautiful silhouette, but the people want apartments. Architects must learn to count money." Khrushchev ordered Soviet architects, under pain of punishment, to launch a mass-construction housing program based on simple standardized designs. To speed up building, he detailed a shock brigade of 100,000 "volunteer" Communist youths to work in plants making prefab reinforced construction parts. "Everything that can be replaced by concrete," ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Walls in Jericho | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...struck. Four years ago, Mao Tse-tung himself meekly trooped off to Moscow, signed, under Stalin's eye, the treaty leaving the strategic Port Arthur region in Russian hands. This time Mao did not go to Moscow. Three of the top Russian rulers, headed by No. 2 man, Nikita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EAST: Three Giants | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

With a play of muscle, China's Communist rulers last week celebrated their fifth anniversary in power. On the rostrum the Chinese Reds were joined by a star-studded delegation from other parts of the Communist empire, headed by Nikita Khrushchev, No. 2 man in Russia. Also present were Boleslaw Bierut, the Polish Communist chief, Kim II Sung, and eight other delegations from sister "people's democracies." "Everybody," cried Radio Peking, "can see the greatness of our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Parades & Power | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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