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Khrushchev in Power

Unfinished Reforms, 1961-1964
  • Translated by: and
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2014

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A full reckoning of Nikita Khrushchev's accomplishments and failures cannot be complete without looking beyond his foreign policy initiatives to assess his efforts to introduce domestic policy reforms in the Soviet Union. Sergei Khrushchev tells the full story of those efforts during the years immediately before his father's ouster—and of the intrigues and struggles for power that went along with them. In many ways, as his son shows, the premier's reforms anticipated those that Deng Xiaoping successfully pursued later in China. But within only a few short years after he was forced to retire, they had been largely abandoned. Why that happened is one of the questions that Sergei Khrushchev seeks to answer in this book, as he draws on archival records, memoirs, and his own personal recollections to provide a comprehensive account of the 1961-1964 period.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

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  • Part 1. At a Crossroads: 1961
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    1. The New Ruble

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    2. “If You Don’t Oversee It Yourself . . .”

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    3. Kozlov “in Charge”

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    4. Grisha Faibishenko and Petya Rokotov

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    5. Kozlov “in Charge,” Continued

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    6 Day by Day

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    7. The Film Our Nikita Sergeyevich and the Personality Cult

    34
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    8. Family Matters

    41
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    9. Communism

    44
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    10. Again About Stalin

    56
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    11. Term Limits for Everyone

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    12. Kozlov Makes His Move

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    13. A Dangerous Partnership

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    14. Disputes over Agricultural Methods

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    15. A Lesson in Diplomacy

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    16. A Canal from the Baltic to the Black Sea

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    17. What Will Our Lives Be Like?

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  • Part 2. Time for Change: 1962
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    18. A Speech in Minsk

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    19. How to Fill the Government Granaries?

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    20. Production Administrations Replace Regional Party Committees

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    21. Day by Day

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    22. The Dawn of Microelectronics

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    23. From a Price System Based on a Single Standard, to the Novocherkassk Tragedy

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    24. Dwindling Reserves of Trust

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    25. The Bill from Ashkhabad

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    26. On Vacation with Zahir Shah

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    27. Liberman, Khrushchev, Zasyadko

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    28. Still More Power to the Regions and Reliance on Younger People

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    29. Burning the Bridges

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    30. The Burden of Being a Superpower

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    31. A Literary “Treasure Island”

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    32. The Khrushchev Constitution

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    33. Day by Day

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    34. The Yugoslav Model

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    35. How People Were Living

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    36. Problems, Problems, Problems

    184
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    37. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, July–October 1962

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    38. Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Novy Mir, and Censorship, November 1962

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    39. The New Generation in Art and Politics, April–November 1962

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    40. Suslov Goes on the Offensive, December 1, 1962

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    41. Strike While the Iron Is Hot, December 17, 1962

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    42. Suslov Advances Further, December 24 and 26, 1962

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    43. The Film Outpost of Ilyich, February 1963

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    44. The Decisive Battle, March 1963

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    45. The Thunderstorm Fizzles Out, April 25–June 18, 1963

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    46. Last Attempt at a Counterattack, July 7–21, 1963

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    47. Back on Track, July–August 1963

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    48. After the Storm

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  • Part 3. Unforeseen Delay: 1963
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    49. The Year Began As Usual

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    50. Mathematics in Economics

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    51. The Council on Science

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    52. Fresh Vegetables for the Winter Table

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    53. What We Managed to Accomplish in the Chemical Industry

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    54. End of the Era of Five-Story Apartment Buildings

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    55. Day by Day

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    56. Horizontal vs. Vertical

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    57. What If?

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    58. Dust Storm

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    59. From Chemistry to Agrochemistry

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    60. Orville Freeman and the American Chicken

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    61. “Our Farms Don’t Supply Meat and Milk to Their Own Workers”

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    62. Irrigation and Rice Cultivation

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    63. Tomatoes and Superphosphate Instead of Grenade Launchers and Phosgene

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    64. “Times Have Changed”

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    65. “The East Wind”

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    66. John Kenneth Galbraith

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    67. “The Same Thing, Painted a Different Color”

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    68. Tourists and Unlocking the Border

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    69. Send Them to Prison or Give Them an Award?

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    70. Day by Day

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    71. Time to Decide

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  • Part 4. Downfall: 1964
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    72. The Last New Year

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    73. Not Yet a Conspiracy

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    74. Day by Day

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    75. “Specialists Build Our Rockets, but Who Grows Our Potatoes?”

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    76. Day by Day

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    77. Moscow Street Lights

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    78. Day by Day

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    79. The Scandinavian “Miracle”

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    80. “We’ll Break Up the Academy of Sciences and Chase It Off to the Devil’s Grandmother,” or “Whoever Has Science Has the Future”

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    81. The Eight-Year School

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    82. Spelling Reform

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    83. “In General Everyone Is Busy, but in Particular No One Is”

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    84. Pensions, Salaries, Two Days Off

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    85. Not Tightening the Screws

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    86. “Why Just One Party?”

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    87. Khrushchev’s Last Act of Sedition

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    88. A Fateful Leadership Change

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    89. Day by Day

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    90. All Power to the Director!

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    91. July 24, 1964: Looking to the Future

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    92. The Farewell

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    93. Barayev Continues to Argue Against Nalivaiko

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    94. The CC Presidium Meeting of August 19, 1964

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    95. Big Oil of Siberia

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    96. Antonin Novotny and Alexander Dubček

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    97. Richard Sorge, Vasily Porik, and Fritz Schmerkel

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    98. Day by Day

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    99. What Kind of Army Do We Need?

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    100. Day by Day

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    101. “We’ve Talked and Talked, but We Cannot Get Anything Done”

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    102. Galyukov Calls Me

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    103. Vacation in October

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    104. What’s This All About?

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    105. The Denouement

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    106. After Khrushchev

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  • Part 5. Epilogue
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    107. Summing Up

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    Biographical Notes on the Cast of Characters

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    Endnotes

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    Index

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    About the Book

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