Word: antistalinist
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...Kravchenko? The New York Times, which had a clear beat on the story, identified him as the 38-year-old chief of the metals section of the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington. Timesman Joseph Shaplen, a veteran antiStalinist, knew where Kravchenko was, but would let no other reporters at him. Friends recalled that Kravchenko has a wife and four-year-old son in Moscow, that his mother had recently been freed by the retreating Germans after three years as a prisoner of war. Would something happen to them...
Thoroughly professional Journalist Isaac Don Levine, sharp biographer of Joseph Stalin, has for years delivered such pungent judgments as, "No Government in the world is corroded by such internal abject fear as the Stalin Dictatorship." TIME repeats that his dynamic fact-marshaling has consistently been antiStalinist, which in official Moscow's view is always the chief evidence of "Trotskyism." (See Red Smoke by Isaac Don Levine-McBride, 1932, $2.) As to who first interviewed Joseph Stalin, the technically prior claims of able, Russian-speaking Yale Professor Jerome Davis and an earlier Japanese as well as a German correspondent have...