Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already created in the Orgburo and the Party Control Commission, by which Stalin organized himself into power after Lenin's death, and which later became a department of personnel in the Kremlin. Only such an apparatus could have arrested and destroyed former police chief Yagoda. From being dossier clerk to Yezhov, the young Malenkov is said to have graduated to secretarial head of this tidy personnel department. He may well have inherited the apparatus after Stalin's death...
Richard Wagner rates the fattest dossier in Slonimsky's book-27 pages. He was called, among other things, a Communist (in 1855), a madman and a eunuch. Slonimsky himself believes that, for pure vehemence, criticism of Wagner has seldom surpassed that of the German historian, J. L. Klein, who wrote in 1871 of "the diabolical din of this pigheaded man, stuffed with brass and sawdust, inflated, in an insanely destructive self-aggrandizement, by Mephistopheles' mephitic and most venomous hellish miasma, into Beelzebub's Court Composer and General Director of Hell's Music-Wagner...
...whole idea of the classe nouvelle, each limited to 30 students, is to tailor education to the abilities of the individual. Teachers supervise every child, hold private talks with him, then with his parents. For the first time, a full psychological dossier, carefully noting his outstanding talents and troubles, is kept on each pupil...
...Communist cell . . . His registration for the presidential election of 1945 was as a Communist Party member under the number 5/420. If he wants further details, let him give us a power of attorney so that we can obtain certified copies of the records in his long police dossier...
Satraps & Hand-Raisers. The novel opens with the Nazi entry into Kharkov. Soon some German officers are gloating over rows of Russian secret-police files in which, as one SSman says with professional admiration, there is "for each and every individual a dossier." With cold brutality, the Nazis proceed to murder the Kharkov Communists, not bothering to distinguish between active satraps of Stalin and mere party hand-raisers. But in the bowels of the city, the Russian secret police rebuilds its organization; in the forests, guerrillas stir, and from the east comes the Russian counterattack...