Nikita Khrushchev's Stormy Career, Russian
Anti-Semitism, Roles of USSR Leaders Are
Traced in Forceful Crankshaw Biography
Few men of this generation of
Russians, except perhaps Joseph
Stalin, attracted as much attention
as Nikita Sergeivich Khrushchev.
He was outspoken, often arrogant,
blustering. He hammered at a UN
desk with a shoe he removed from
his foot in order to have a wea-
pon with which to demonstrate
against the United States.
Yet there were occasions when
be was a party to peace with the
U. S. at a time when it looked like
War.
He was a stormy petrel, and his
_life was replete with drama. This
dramatic career is depicted in a
very important biography, "Khru-
shchev—A Career," by the emi-
nent correspondent, Edward
Crankshaw. Published by Viking
Press (625 Madison, NY22), this
biographical work may well be
considered one of the very vital
stories about a virulent figure who
exerted much influence on his
time.
It is more than a biography:
in many respects it is a history
of Communist Russia. It throws
light upon many events, upon
the major personalities in the
USSR, upon Lenin, Trotsky, Sta-
lin and their cohorts. It reveals
many interesting facts about all
of them and about their party
relationships. Even in describ-
ing Lazar Kaganovich, Crank-
shaw reveals that the only Jew-
ish member of the Bolshevik
hierarchy was himself an anti 7
Semite.
was a long-term schemer, which
Kaganovich never was."
There is much light in this
biography on Khrushchev's anti-
Jewishness, on his role as the
instigator of deportations of
many of his enemies—of his op-
' ponents with whom he dealt
harshly. In the course of the
deportations, however, "curi-
ously, quite a number of Jews
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
from eastern Poland and the
Baltic States owed their lives to
Khrushchev, Zhdanov and Serov,
who had sent them to Siberia
(where, also many died) before
the Germans could get at them
and murder them."
wanted to show that he was sin-
cere in his desire to work with
the Democracies. That's when
the cabal rebelled and forced
him out.
It is this past that is described
so brilliantly in an excellent biog-
raphy that throws light on so
many vital matters, on so many
strong personalities, in the USSR.
The roles of Trotsky and Lenin,
the fantastic career of Kagano-
vich, the Jews who were in the
party in the early years of the
Lenin-Trotsky rule—the leadership
of Buria, Malenkov, Bulganin,
Molotov, Zhdanov, Yagoda, Voro-
shilov, and many others—are part
of a story that incorporates history
as related to the ambitions and
aims of dominating factors in
Russian annals. The Nazi terrors,
the Jewish sufferings, the anti-
Semitism—all are merged into a
great yarn realistically spun by a
man who is highly qualified to
write about the history of Russia
and its Communist rulers.
Colombia, Israel
Agreement Bans
Visitors' Visas
BOGOTA (JTA) — Israel and
Colombia signed an agreement pro-
viding for the abolition of visitors
visas between the two states. The
pact, which is the result of a grow-
ing interest of Colombia in Israel,
was signed by the Colombian
Foreign Minister, Dr. Castor
Jaramillo Arrubia, and Israel Am-
It is while relating Khrushchev's
The story of Stalin's drummed bassador Avigdor Shoham. The
relationship with Kaganovich that
up charges against the Jewish agreement is expected to facilitate
Crankshaw states:
doctors who were charged with a commerce and travel between the
"Kaganovich was a workingman Zionist plot, Khrushchev's subse- two countries.
too, about the same age; but as a quent and in repudiating Stalin,
revolutionary he was far senior, the intrigues, the jealousies, the Concessions to German
and he had an attacking, not a plots that predominated are under
Protested by Survivors
calculating temperament. He was rev iew.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Josef Rosen-
also a Jew. Khrushchev in later •
Then came the revolt—the emer- saft, president of the Bergen-
years showed himself an anti-
Semite. He was a tough and un- crence of a group that "said he Belsen Survivors Association, pro-
b
too old": "They said the gov - tested at the organization's 21st
impeacheable Russian M o u z h i k ' was
e
(peasant). As Stalin consolidatedrnment
of the Soviet Union and annual meeting here that "in the
his aposition, the Jewish revolu- the leadership of the Communist concentration camps, we heard
tionaries, to whom Lenin owed so Party were too serious to be left the music of Wagner and Strauss,
much, were being beaten down. to the uncontrolled, uncontrollable and now we are to hear it again
Kaganovich, the Jew, who was impulses of a man who was show- in Israel."
He referred to a public debate
also an anti-Semite, may have ing himself ever more incapable
found it useful to show as of playing his part in a team. which developed when the Israel
his most useful pr o t e g e the They demanded his resignation." Philharmonic Orchestra announced
very type of the anti-Jewish, anti- They got it—from the man who is last month that it would schedule
intellectual peasant. He must have described as having been "a pris- the music of the two German
been aware, too, that Khrushchev, oner of his past."
composers whose works have been
for all his brash and noisy, over-
It was Khrushchev's desire to prescribed in Israel since it was
bearing ways, had reserves of effect a "peaceful coexistence" founded. He also called on Israeli
subtlety and cunning which he
and to encourage the campaign authorities to make the Yad Vas-
lacked, Kaganovich's revolution-
for Kennedy against Goldwater,
hem, the Memorial to the Victims
ary cunning was adequate for his
according to Crankshaw, that of the Nazi holocaust, barred to
purposes, but it never aspired
caused him to send his son-in- German visitors. Yaacov Tsur,
much beyond the Leninist double-
law to East Germany and in the
chairman of the World Zionist
cross. Khrushchev's mind, behind
course of his plans to accom- Actions Committee, also addressed
those small screwed-up eyes, was
modate West Germany. He the meeting.
more devious; his nature, behind
the bluster, far more patient. He
"Let my
little boy
play with
a mentally
retarded
child?
Never!"
If that's how you feel,
Yon don't know the facts.
Write for a free booklet to
The President's Committee
on Mental Retardation.
Washington. D.C.
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There is an account of the anti-
Jewish attitudes of the dictator
and the failure to take note of the
German atrocities against the
Jews or of the horrible crime com-
mitted at Babi Yar. (This incident
will be treated editorially a bit
later).
16—Friday, July 22, 1966
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