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...going to talk to you with sweet words," he said. "The situation in the world is not just dangerous. It is not just threatening. It is catastrophic!" He noted that Nikita Khrushchev used to tell the U.S., "We will bury you." Today, said Solzhenitsyn, the Soviets are too clever to say that. "Now all the Soviets say is 'détente...
Shelepin's meteoric rise through the Communist Party apparatus under Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev showed him to be outstandingly adroit in cultivating useful political alliances and cutting through the ossified Soviet bureaucracy. He established a substantial power base as head of the Komsomol organization of young Communists and later as chief of the KGB, the Soviet secret police...
...Nikita Khruschev...
...dangers. The world had not witnessed such a week of more or less simultaneous shocks since early November 1956, when a British-French-Israeli force was invading Egypt and the Soviets were crushing the Hungarian revolt, or since mid-October 1964, when the Soviet Central Committee deposed Nikita Khrushchev, the Chinese exploded their first atom bomb and Britain elected a Labor government in a remarkable upset...
Although often derided by party compatriots as a mediocrity, Bulganin had a shrewd instinct for survival. In 1953 he joined the Presidium plot to arrest the hated secret police chief Lavrenty Beria, and two years later he backed Nikita Khrushchev's successful attempt to oust Georgi Malenkov as Premier. As a reward, Bulganin was given Malenkov'sjob...