[Ads-l] Kremlinology antedate

Mark Mandel markamandel at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jun 23 12:30:47 UTC 2021


I've never seen the spelling "Kruschev", though it reflects the American
colloquial pronunciation of the name. I've only ever seen "Khrushchev", an
accurate transliteration of "Хрущёв" (except for the two dots over the "е",
which make it ['ʲɔ] instead of ['ʲɛ]).

Mark Mandel

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021, 12:58 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> OED has 1958
>
> 1953 _New Leader_ Dec. 21 11/2
> Specialists in Kremlinology will remember Malenkov's sharp criticism, at
> the Nineteenth Party Congress a year ago, of the views then held by
> *Kruschev*, and will perhaps deduce the existence of an antagonism
> between the Premiere and his comrade-in-arms which may be the beginning of
> another round in the battle for political supremacy.
>
>
>

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