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...insignificant regional party secretary, one of more than a hundred such factotums scattered throughout Russia. Today he is one of the ten members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, the most powerful executive body in the U.S.S.R. "Katushev is the man to watch," says Columbia University Sovietologist Severyn Bialer. "His rise has been spectacular, unheard of. It is largely due to Brezhnev, who may be grooming him to replace Kosygin eventually...
...parties loyally supported Moscow, even though many members quit. Unless the Soviets can somehow reverse the trend, Czechoslovakia may mark a major and historic acceleration in Moscow's inability to control Communism. "In the past, individuals were driven by their conscience to question Soviet actions," says British Sovietologist Victor Zorza. "Now whole parties are questioning...
Holyoake. Most Western experts saw the invasion as a cruel blunder. Said British Sovietologist Victor Zorza: "The rape of Czechoslovakia, which was intended to preserve the old order, will only speed up its disintegration...
...Russia to build antiballistic-missile systems. But there is a more intriguing theory-that the Russians acted now because they are concerned about the prospect that Richard Nixon may be the next President. "You can say they are doing it to prevent Nixon from being elected," declares Columbia Sovietologist Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Humphrey adviser. "And you can say they are doing it because they think that if he's elected, tensions will increase." "They are concerned," adds Yale Political Scientist Frederick Barghoorn, "about creating pressure against anyone who is for a hard-line American policy. If they could swing...
...such Marxist theories as class revolution and "the dictatorship of the proletariat" just plain nuisances. The Chinese are right, of course: the Russians are revisionists. In a very real sense, Russia has survived Marxism more than it has been formed by it. "The revolution is over," says Glasgow University Sovietologist Alec Nove. "Its rationalities, its logic, have little further relevance so far as economic organization is concerned...