Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ASSOCIATE Editor David B. Tinnin spent three weeks last month traveling through Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union before tackling the job of writing this week's cover story on the state of world Communism. Tinnin's tour amounted to a cram course in the style and strains of life in the East bloc. To his surprise, the biggest payoff came during a cocktail party in Bucharest. There he overheard a Communist official say that copies of a detailed secret document spelling out the agenda for the summit meeting in Moscow had been sent to party central committees...
From the Paris bureau they received an unexpected contribution -an intimate, first-hand report on Chinese Communism from the staff librarian, Jean Pasqualini. Born in Peking of a Chinese mother and a Corsican father, Pasqualini served as an interpreter for the U.S. Marines after World War II, later was arrested by Mao's police, charged with spying and sentenced to twelve years in a labor camp. After serving seven years, Pasqualini was released...
...most urgent question of our time?the tasks of the anti-imperialist struggle at the present stage and the unity of action of Communist and workers' parties, of all anti-imperialist forces." But the participants knew the real purpose of the meeting. Alarmed by divisions and defiance within Communism, the Soviet Union was out to salvage as much as possible of its once uncontested primacy over the movement...
...that the Kremlin had undertaken in convening the summit was formidable. There was considerable suspicion that the conference, expected to last two or three weeks, would turn out to be a debacle for the Soviets. Never has the Communist movement been in greater disarray. Once the undisputed fountainhead of Communism, Moscow has seen many parties grow distant and independent and others turn violently against Soviet primacy. It is not too much to say that the Russians can now command unquestioning obedience only in those countries where their soldiers can enforce...
...strongest case for an adjustment in U.S. China policy can be made in a larger, global context. Given the steady widening of the Sino-Soviet rift, the world power equation has changed dramatically. With the passing of monolithic Communism, interesting possibilities open up for U.S. diplomacy. The U.S. has tended to look "pro-Russian" in the Sino-Soviet conflict. If that becomes a permanent label, it will only serve to exacerbate Peking's paranoia about collusion between "imperialist" Washington and "revisionist" Moscow...