Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow. The capital's hotels, including the new 3,000-room Rossia, just off Red Square, braced for the greatest onslaught of comradely dignitaries in nearly a decade. Barring a last-minute snag, the oft-postponed world summit meeting of Communist parties will convene this week in the Soviet capital, the first such international gathering of top party brass since...
Russia today is ruled by a collective leadership, and Westerners naturally wonder who is on top or who is fighting whom inside that group. Soviet authorities are extremely sensitive about such speculation, insisting that all is harmony within the Kremlin leadership...
...move reflected a growing Soviet campaign to choke off contacts between foreign newsmen and Soviet citizens, most notably the intellectuals who some times slip protest manifestoes to Western journalists. Since last April, Shub and the New York Times' 's Henry Kamm have been barred from traveling beyond a 25-mile radius from Moscow...
Chinese Threat. The Soviet action also showed an intense official annoyance at Shub's reporting, especially a recent article that appeared in the International Herald Tribune under the intriguing if overblown headline: CAN THE SOVIET UNION LAST UNTIL...
...That brought down the thunderbolts," said Shub after he flew out to London. The article focused on the threat of war with China and speculated that the dissident minority groups in the Soviet Union's western borderlands might seize the opportunity to revolt against Soviet rule. In other articles, Shub has delineated the possible power struggles within the Kremlin and described the plight of the Soviet intellectuals, with whom he has close ties...