Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complete worldwide disarmament piously proposed by Khrushchev (TIME, Sept. 28), his seeming eagerness to shed some of the economic burdens of the arms race might lead him to make concessions on the all-important question of armaments inspection and control. "Reciprocal concessions" must be made, Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet last week, and this must not be interpreted, he warned his people, as meaning he would give ground on basic ideology...
...cryptically suggested that Germany might yet have to make more sacrifices in order to complete "the liquidation of the effects of World War II." What Adenauer fears is that the West may agree to some erosion of its position in West Berlin and may, at least by implication, accept Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe as legitimate. The simple French position is that to renegotiate on Berlin is to call into question the West's existing right to be there...
...economy is in a state of great upsurge," proclaimed Chief Soviet Planner Aleksei Kosygin last week, and Radio Moscow, going further, called Russia the "greatest power in the world." The occasion was one of the rare gatherings...
...Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., in theory the supreme political authority of Russia. Meeting for the first time since December 1958, the 1,378 assorted welders, milkmaids, bureaucrats, and novelists who are delegates were allowed to endorse Russia's new 1960 budget...
...Soviet budget is unlike anything in the West. Since the government runs not only itself but almost all industry, shops, and farms, its budget determines not only its own spending but how many TV sets will be made and how many shoes sold. At 745 billion rubles (roughly $74.5 billion), it is on the same order as President Eisenhower's $77.1 billion budget, but to be really comparable, the U.S. budget would have to include the spending of U.S. Steel, General Motors, A.T. & T. et al. But if the Russian budget is hard to compare...