Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gopak. Khrushchev is of peasant stock, forthright and outgoing, but at the same time full of wile and guile. Before the revolution he was remembered in his village as an accomplished performer on the Ukrainian flute, the town's best dancer of the gopak (hearing of this, Stalin once ordered him to dance the gopak; he did), and a prodigious drinker of yorsh (a potent mass boilermaker made of six pints of beer to iV pints of vodka). Born in a reed-and-mud hut, the son of a miner, he had taught himself to read, worked...
...first as a minor party secretary at Stalino, then in Kiev. When Kaganovich was assigned to supervise the building of the Moscow subway, he brought in the untutored young tough from the Donets to watchdog the workers. Khrushchev got into the Moscow city party organization in 1931, and when Stalin started liquidating the party leaders Khrushchev quickly put himself on the road to power with a whole string of speeches condemning the fingered Communists as a ''pack of murderers and scoundrels" (1936), "a warning to all who think of raising a hand against our Stalin" (1937)> "a victorious...
Kaganovich introduced his protege to the top Kremlin big shots, and Khrushchev, who had wit and a fund of droll peasant sayings, and could laugh with his hands on his hips at the boss's mordant quips, was soon a regular visitor at the dacha Stalin kept for his fun-loving consort Roza Kaganovich, Lazar's sister. Khrushchev was a good deal more useful to Stalin than many of his Kremlin dummies. Twice Stalin sent him into the Ukraine to deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores...
...that they should be formally shorn of their great offices and privileges. In its final stage the meeting was probably less of a democratic gathering than a ghastly charade, designed to provide Khrushchev with his "scabby sheep" thesis (i.e., a cleansing of the party) and to speed the old Stalin associates to exile, if not to death. The stage arrangements, the cues picked up by party workers all over the country, seem too patly rehearsed to have been the outcome of a chance, snap meeting...
...Later recreated as a ministry, the MVD, though the old name stuck. * Security Boss Ignatiev, who may know a great deal about Stalin's death two months later, is still alive, a full member of the Central Committee and the only living ex-NKVD boss. * Khrushchev's answer, delivered last week in Czechoslovakia: "On a hungry stomach, Marxist-Leninism may be very difficult to un derstand. It is not wrong to throw in a piece of bacon and a piece of butter in the course of improving the theory of Marx...