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...months, dozens of speakers in scores of Soviet cities had been readying their ponderous lecture texts for the most anxiously awaited date on the Kremlin's spring calendar of events, May 28, when a special meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee Plenum would lay down the ideological law to restless intellectuals. Last week the long-scheduled meeting was put off until June...
...knew? Whatever was behind postponement of the Plenum, the abrupt switch served to delay Moscow's coming confrontation with its rivals in Peking. Two weeks ago, the Red Chinese finally got around to answering the Soviet invitation to discuss their nasty ideological quarrel face to face, suggested a mid-June meeting in Moscow. But since the Soviets could scarcely conduct two showdowns at the same moment, they suggested a new date, July 5. For once, Peking said...
Khrushchev's audience was the plenum of the party's Central Committee, gathered in Moscow to discuss the mess in the Soviet economy. As usual when he needs support, Khrushchev revived memories of the awful Stalin. He was, said Khrushchev, "afraid of the people and locked himself in an armored box." He also shut himself off from the outside world. "The idea was vigorously inculcated that everything of ours is utterly ideal and everything foreign is utterly bad. We should remember Lenin's advice to be able, if necessary, to learn from the capitalists, to imitate...
...Soviet Union, 1962 has been a year of economic ferment unmatched since the early days of industrialization and the forced collectivization of the '30s. In this atmosphere, Nikita Khrushchev this week opens the plenum of the party's Central Committee, an assortment of some 2,000 committee members and other party workers summoned from factories and fields across Russia. The meeting is two months overdue; Khrushchev delayed calling it because he had hoped that things would settle down-domestically, that...
Evidently they have not. The plenum will have to deal with inefficient industrial production, the long-debated need for capitalist-style incentives, and the continuing failure of Soviet agriculture, including Khrushchev's pet virgin lands project in Kazakhstan. Certain to come under scrutiny will be the most violent outburst of discontent reported from Russia in years, last summer's riots in the southern city of Novocherkassk, which ended with the killing of hundreds of workers and housewives who protested against high prices and poor working conditions (TIME, Oct. 19). Moscow denied the whole thing, but according...