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...circulation is only 73,000, but guided by Armstrong's intelligence, it became a sort of house organ for world leaders. In the first issue-which Lenin read carefully-former U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root proclaimed America's global destiny. Other contributors have included Leon Trotsky, Nikita Khrushchev and, in 1967, Richard Nixon, who explained the necessity for stabilized relations with mainland China...
Lottery Ticket. Until the very moment of his fall, Nikita Khrushchev was noted for similarly compelling powers of persuasion-and political survival. The son of a peasant farmer in the Ukraine, he worked as a shepherd, steam fitter and coal miner. In 1918 he joined the Red Army, quickly becoming a political commissar. As a delegate to the 14th Party Congress in 1925, he skipped breakfast every morning so he could get a front seat near Stalin...
History will probably best remember Nikita Khrushchev for his 1956 speech before the 20th Party Congress in which he denounced the crimes of Joseph Stalin. His motives for delivering the speech were decidedly mixed. He was by no means a crusader for personal liberties, but he was sufficiently disenchanted with the old dictator's legacy of fear and repression to repudiate Stalin in 20,000 graphic words. The speech was a personal triumph and helped Khrushchev consolidate his power. But it also loosed forces that inexorably led to the fragmentation of the Communist world...
...Chinese were-and remain-rigid dogmatists who are unlikely to forgive him even in death for his "revisionist" heresy. When French Maoist Regis Bergeron heard that Khrushchev had died, for example, he exulted: "Good! Another revisionist less. Unfortunately, Khrushchevism does not die with him." A large number of Nikita Khrushchev's experiments ended in failure. His attempts to grant greater intellectual freedom to his countrymen were largely nullified by his subsequent actions-partly because he was under pressure from his own hard-liners not to go too far and partly because he preferred order to ideas. Perhaps most disastrous...
...Died. Nikita Khrushchev, 77, deposed Soviet leader (see THE WORLD...