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Mixed Record. "In all his actions," observes British Sovietologist Robert Conquest, "one saw a limited but not hidebound mind, and with it a sort of peasant cunning. But in the end, he antagonized his subordinates without sufficiently terrorizing them, a fatal lapse." Khrushchev died in official disgrace, reduced by the Soviet monolith to an unperson. To Russia's masses, his performance was at best ambiguous. Heralded for relaxing the prison-camp atmosphere that prevailed under Stalin, he was also bitterly blamed for recurring failures in the economy and agriculture. To most Westerners, too, his record is mixed. A shrewd...
...result of this conflict was a compromise. Kennedy agreed to the creation of a new, ambitiously named Conquest of Cancer Agency within NIH, yet administratively independent. The agency's director would be appointed by the President and responsible to him. Its budget requests would bypass NIH and go directly to the White House's Office of Management and Budget. Despite reservations, the Administration accepted Kennedy's proposal. The compromise bill will be reported out of the Senate Labor and Welfare Committee this week...
...NATION KILLERS by Robert Conquest. 222 pages. Macmillan...
...Britain's foremost students of Russian affairs here describes the deportation from their homelands in the Caucasus of the entire populations of eight small nations. The Soviet pretext during World War II was that all those people were traitorous. By Conquest's calculation, about 1.6 million were uprooted and sent to the East. Of these, he estimates, 600,000 died as a result of the move...
...Great, were dispossessed not only of national existence but of their history-as were seven Asiatic nations, including Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingushi, Karachai, Balkars, Meskhetians and the Crimean Tatars. In the great reshuffling of borders and renaming of regions to obliterate old names, even the houses of the Crimean Tatars, Conquest writes, "were demolished and their vines and orchards allowed to become wild and overgrown. The Tatars' cemeteries were plowed up and their ancestors' remains torn out of the ground...