Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heavy Cost. Grossman himself is a left-wing British Socialist who edited The God That Failed (TIME, Jan. 9. 1950), a damning indictment of Communism by former party members and fellow travelers. Taken on a conducted tour by the Chinese Reds, he was somehow persuaded that formation of the communes was actually "spontaneous and unforeseen by the State Planning Commission." Yet even the establishment of the far milder cooperative farms met with considerable opposition among Red China's peasants. In Kwangtung province alone 118.000 peasants and their families deserted cooperative farms in 1956. Peking itself admits that the establishment...
Already Peking ideologists are predicting that when the communes come into full flower, six years or so from now, China will have achieved true Communism, as Russia has not-thus furthering Chairman Mao's bid for ideological pre-eminence in the Communist world...
...Express. Was he a Communist? "There is no such thing as a Communist." What were the differences between France and Poland? "I think that people here are able, at least to some extent, to get an element of joy out of life." What was it like to live under Communism? "The misfortune of a man in a totalitarian country is the feeling, a feeling that never leaves him, of the grotesqueness and ridiculousness of one's own self-the reduction of dreams-the reduction of desires-a moral atrophy-the inability to react to the vileness one sees...
...Peru, a mason frorrwltaly. All were following a six-month course that had started four months before. All lived in strict discipline. Reveille was at 6 a.m. to the strains of the Soviet Air Force march. The "students" studied Latin American politics and economics, the place of women in Communism, Russian history, ideology, public speaking, propaganda, etc. The most convincing debaters and public speakers got special diplomas. Money to finance the school came from the Argentine Communist Party, but the parties in each student's country paid for his trip and living expenses...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Russia's greatest living poet affirms in Russia's greatest novel since the Revolution that not even Communism can destroy his people's hopes and humanity...