Khrushchev Nikita

You follow Sally s eyes that have wandered to the windowsill on which is perched a bronze bust of astronaut Neil Armstrong. On the adjacent wall is a picture of Robert Kennedy, Herbert Hoover, and Nikita Khrushchev boarding a flying saucer. 

Economics and politics also intersected in Whitehall s perception in 1956 of the Soviet Union as a threat to Britain s share of international trade. In May of that year, when arguing that Britain could not afford a policy of perfection in defence, Eden noted that there was evidence that the Russians intended to concentrate on industrial exports. In order to be able to meet this competition, part of the burden placed on British industry by defence orders must be reduced, so as to release resources for civil production. In present circumstances, he said, economic failure was a more serious risk than global war, and defence plans had to be adjusted to this revised political assessment. He added that a recent report from the ambassador in Washington showed that President Eisenhower was thinking along the same lines.The Russians made no secret of their intentions. In November 1957 Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, declared in a visit to the United States in the peaceful field of trade we declare a war. The threat to the United States is not in the intercontinental ballistic missile but in the field of peaceful production. We are relentless in this and will prove the superiority of our system. ... 

In the aftermath ofthe 1948 conference, most of the remaining honest geneticists in the Soviet Union were fired from their jobs and replaced by Lysenko s proteges. The famous branched wheat that gained Stalin s support for Lysenko turned out to give much poorer yields than ordinary, unbranched wheat, but with Stalin s support, this was no problem for Lysenko. After Stalin s death, it was not long before Lysenko hypnotized his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, who provided the same top-level political support to which Lysenko had become accustomed. 

In 1963 Nikita Khrushchev sharply criticized the literary champions of "Jewish martyrdom , especially Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who had drawn notice the year before with his poem Babi Yar 53... 

The Stalinist era had consolidated the Socialist Realist canon and created an effective system of cultural institutions. However, Stalin s legacy became particularly burdensome, leading the new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to partially deny this legacy in the Twentieth Party Congress (1956) nevertheless, neither he nor his successors (until Mikhail Gorbachev) discarded the practices and institutions established during Stalinism. 

Khrushchev, N. S. (2006). Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Volume 2 reformer (1945-1964). S. Khrushchev (Ed.). University Park, PA Pennsylvania State University Press. 

Akmola translates to White Tomb from the Kazakh, a rather unfortunate name for a potential capital city, a name given upon independence. Previously, the city was known as Tselinograd, which translates from the Russian as Virgin Lands City. The naming took place when Nikita Khrushchev announced the Virgin Lands Project in 1961. 

Khrushchev, S. I. (2000). Nikita Khrushchev and the creation of a superpower. University Park, FL The Pennsylvania State University Press. 

September First Summit Meeting (President Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev). 

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