Word: nikita
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...Ilyich Brezhnev, 64, clasped his hands together like a prizefighter. The 24th Soviet Party Congress was nearly over, and the outpouring of praise for Brezhnev was by all odds the closest that the Soviet Union has come to the adulation of a single ruler since the collective leadership overthrew Nikita Khrushchev in 1964. In more practical terms of power, Brezhnev also emerged with a tighter hold on the levers of Soviet authority. As the Congress went through the motions of electing a new Central Committee and Politburo, they chose mainly Brezhnev...
...Tenth Congress in 1921, Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy, which for a time allowed the peasants to sell their produce on a free market. At the 15th, six years later, Stalin consolidated his hold on power by purging Leon Trotsky from the party. At the 20th in 1956, Nikita Khrushchev delivered the famed "secret speech" that started the wave of destalinization...
Parchamovsky's case was closed. But so, too, is the Soviet rent-a-car system, which was started by Nikita Khrushchev after his 1959 visit to the U.S. Foreign tourists may still rent cars for hard currency through Intourist, the official Soviet travel agency. But the domestic rent-a-car garages have gradually been phased out. Parchamovsky's account of his plight in Izvestia was, at least in part, an officially sanctioned attempt to persuade Russians that they are better off without such modern nuisances...
...your story on Khrushchev's reminiscences [Dec. 7], you report an odd linguistic controversy about the proper affectionate and intimate variation of the name Svetlana in Russian. Nikita Khrushchev says Stalin called his daughter Svetlanka. But in Russian the ending nka is usually used in talking to pets, as in Anton Chekhov's story about the dog Kashtanka. Stalin's daughter says her father always called her Svetochka. Since Stalin, the author of Marxism and Linguistics, fancied himself an expert on the Russian language, as on everything else, it still may be hard to argue with...
Ever since 1962, State Department officials have alluded to a vaguely defined "understanding" between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev that the U.S. would not invade Cuba if the Soviets did not build strategic bases or install nuclear weapons there. Last month the White House let it be known that this understanding had been "renewed." In the meantime, however, the Cienfuegos base is all but ready to service Soviet nuclear missile submarines...