Word: alexei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stalin opened his letter with the same limping apologies that non-Marxist non-dictators resort to. "Dear Alexei, Maximovich!-A heap of excuses and a plea that you won't abuse me for my late (too late!) answer. Besides that, I was a bit sick. This, of course, cannot excuse me. But it explains...
...Have No Doubts." The revolution was only twelve years old, but it was already being gnawed by the political cancer that results when people fear to speak out. Stalin had a strong sense of the blighting effect. "We cannot do without self-criticism," he wrote. "We cannot, really, Alexei Maximovich. Without it [will come] immediate stagnation, rotting away of the apparatus, growth of bureaucratism, undermining of creative initiative in the working class...
...Alexei Kosygin, Soviet Minister of Light Industry...
...Alexei S. Kuznetsov, secretary of the Party Central Committee and member of the powerful Orgburo...