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Word: apparatchick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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...results of the K report to be the fact that the polemic on the cult of personality no longer makes sense." Why? Because it lacks "any historical reconstruction of the moment in which all power was transferred to Stalin." In Nenni's eyes, K is obviously a crude apparatchick incapable of making a proper "Marxist analysis." Asking how and why Stalin grabbed his despotic power, Nenni dismisses Khrushchev's explanation that Khrushchev and his gang "saw these problems in a different way at different times." Says Nenni: "This answer may be valid in a strictly personal sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE KREMLIN: Design for K | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

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