Word: apparatchiki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, he has been marked as a dissenter. While a handful of other Russian writers fled to the West, he remained determined to stay and work for the cause of literary freedom in the Soviet Union. In 1967 he angered the apparatchiki with his famous letter to the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers, in which he condemned "the no longer tolerable oppression, in the form of censorship" to which the country's literature was subjected. Soviet officials became increasingly outraged after his books were smuggled to the West and published...
...French and Chinese, he has touted Hanoi's line in Vienna, Stockholm and Rangoon, as well as Peking, Moscow and other Communist capitals, where he has generally appeared in the guise of a journalistic commissar. The softspoken, stumpy Thuy, whose name means spring water, emulates stay-at-home apparatchiki in one respect: his private life is shadowed in secrecy. Thuy is known to have married and fathered children, but his family has been kept as hidden from foreign eyes as the bargaining points he carries to Paris inside his head...
...Other apparatchiki, like Prague Party Boss Martin Vaculik, reduced themselves to apologetic jelly, went on TV to profess support of Dubček and to deny past errors...
...Central Committee. Novotný and his followers futilely tried to stall the inevitable with a filibuster, reportedly attempted to manipulate the militia to help maintain him in authority. Professor Ota Sik, 48, whose new economic model for Czechoslovakia (TIME, Nov. 11, 1966) fell victim to Novotný's apparatchiki, rose before the plenum and made particularly strong denunciations of the old guard-until he was hospitalized with the grippe. By the end of that week, the question was not longer whether Novotný would remain but rather who would succeed...
Died. Frol Romanovich Kozlov, 57, onetime No. 2 man in the Kremlin; after a series of strokes; in Moscow. Urbane and well-dressed, Kozlov was the stereotype of Communism's second-generation apparatchiki-the flexible party bureaucrat who could work with equal fervor for Stalin, Malenkov or Khrushchev, while carefully testing Moscow's changing winds. His real rise began in 1957, when, as a member of the 130-man Communist Central Committee, he shrewdly backed Khrushchev's bid for power, shortly thereafter became one of Nikita's two First Deputy Premiers and heir apparent; his decline...