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...rising costs and a wasteful industrial system. To achieve new growth, it must somehow make better use of what it has. Not surprisingly, Brezhnev devoted two-thirds of his keynote speech to domestic affairs, stressing higher industrial and agricultural productivity and less waste. Speaking later in the week, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov spelled out the guidelines of a new five-year economic plan that aims, among other things, at overcoming chronic shortages of food and consumer goods. In that context, Tikhonov criticized the loss of trade with the U.S., which has dropped by more than 50% the past year...
Thus, in death as in life, Kosygin had been eclipsed by Brezhnev. Still, until he fell ill last year and was replaced as Premier by Nikolai Tikhonov two months ago, he had maintained an iron grip over the vast state bureaucracy that he commanded. World leaders had learned not to judge Kosygin by appearances. In spite of his characteristically hangdog expression, he had been capable of driving as hard a bargain as any Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Equally tough and tenacious in the Kremlin corridors of power, Kosygin was unsurpassed in his ability to sidestep the purges that...
DIED. Alexei Kosygin, 76, longtime Soviet Premier who with Leonid Brezhnev and Nikolai Podgorny formed the "troika" that wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964; of a heart attack; in Moscow (see WORLD...
...SUICIDE by Nikolai Erdman...
This seriocomic drama is a relentlessly pumped-up footnote to Stalinist repression. It is a police-state curio dating from 1932. After 18 months of rehearsals, The Suicide was banned by the Moscow censors on the night of its dress rehearsal, and its author, Nikolai Erdman (1902-70), fell into abject disfavor...