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In 1949, the life expectancy of the average Communist bigwig went down sharply. Not since the Great Purge of 1936-38 had the leadership of world Communism been so rent by fear and division. No leaders of Western Communism had yet been ousted (see below), but behind the Iron Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Year of Purges | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

When Earl Russell Browder was kicked out of the Communist Party in 1946, a discredited symbol of Russia's wartime policy of playing down the coming revolt of the masses, his onetime comrades gave his character a routine knifing, then abandoned him to the lonely death of a political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Comrade at Large | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

My Party, 'Tis of Thee. Heretic Winston Smith not only commits the crime of sexual pleasure with Julia, he also drags her with him into the underground movement-only to find that it is being run by the Oceanian bosses precisely as a trap for would-be rebels. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where the Rainbow Ends | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Communists at Home. It was nine months since Tito had been formally declared a heretic by Moscow for refusing to let Russia exploit his country's economy, to let Russian secret police spy on his own secret police. The world had largely believed that it would be a matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Great Schism | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Professor Anton R. Zhebrak is a Soviet geneticist who has enjoyed international respect. Like most reputable scientists, he has believed in the Morgan-Mendelian theory of genetics (i.e., hereditary characteristics are controlled by genes which cannot be altered by ordinary environmental conditions). That belief made him a heretic in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dear Teacher ... | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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