Word: suslov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into London, in response to a longstanding invitation from a group of British Laborite backbenchers, flew a high-powered Soviet parliamentary delegation headed by gaunt, shock-haired Mikhail Suslov, 56, top Stalinist theoretician. He chucked babies under the chin, watched the House of Commons in action, and laid the inevitable wreath on the Highgate grave of Karl Marx. But his real interest was in long, private discussions with top Laborites Hugh Gaitskell...
...driven, Socialist leaders sometimes find themselves operating in a kind of political no man's land between East and West. They often seem readier than conservative opponents to trade off elements of Western military strength in return for Soviet political concessions. It has not got them very far. Suslov was full of peace talk, but no more willing than Khrushchev to make any substantial compromises...
...recent months informed sources in Belgrade and Warsaw have been proclaiming the existence of a "Stalinist" challenge to Khrushchev, allegedly headed by Theoretician Mikhail Suslov. Suslov, a grim-lipped fellow adept at writing manifestoes, may indeed be swimming in trouble instead of in the Black Sea, where Khrushchev said he was. But the evidence that he is the kind of man, or has the party strength, to offer an effective power challenge to Khrushchev is thin indeed...
Warsaw went farthest with this thesis. Over a Warsaw dateline the New York Times recently headlined that the Suslov "faction" had challenged Khrushchev's authority in May, and that Red China's Mao Tse-tung had weighed in on Suslov's side. At the bottom of all of these reports was the conviction-assiduously spread by Nehru and Tito-that Khrushchev was a "liberal" who should be encouraged because he was trying to fight more illiberal forces at home. It was a theory that Khrushchev obviously had no objection to encouraging. But it is a significant fact...
...want to see Suslov [missing from Kremlin functions for a month], go to the Black Sea, get a bathing suit and go swimming with him," said Khrushchev. Suslov, he added, has some further "accumulated leave" coming. "We take our holidays in turn...