Word: imperialistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that. In the first years of the New Deal, Stalin and his Communists denounced the New Dealers as "social fascists." Then came the United Front : everybody who was against Hitler was a Progressive. Next, the Stalin-Hitler axis, which touched off the war. The war was an Imperialist War until Russia got in; then it was a People's War. After V-E day the Western nations were no longer allies of Russia, but suddenly became parts of what Stalin calls the Imperialist Front...
...least parallel to, say, the Dow theory of stockmarket behavior. Some stock traders look to the Dow theory to tell them when to buy or sell. Stalin and the other Marxists wanted a theory that would tell them when a "break" was likely in the Imperialist Front. They kept their eye glued to "the material life of society." The big thing in it, they found, is "the means of production of material goods." The means of production "determines" two things especially: the kind of social system that prevails, and "the evolution of society from one system to another...
...come to believe that the flowing of the contradictions means, not the classical revolutions, but war first, followed by revolutions. Says Historicus: "In Stalin's thinking, the importance of war as a midwife of revolution can scarcely be exaggerated." War, Stalin says, develops a "weak link" in the imperialist-capitalist chain...
Stalin's grand, flexible strategy is, Historicus says, to make Russia a base to support two movements-the proletariat of the West and the anti-imperialist movements for national liberation in the East-merging them into [Stalin's phrase] "a single world front against the world front of imperialism...
...Franklin Roosevelt said to Poland's Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk: "But of one thing I am certain. Stalin is not an imperialist." Mikolajczyk learned differently, and he told about it last week in his book, The Rape of Poland (Whittlesey; $4). The rough blocks of his story the world has known about: his battle against the Teheran deal in which Roosevelt and Churchill let Stalin take eastern Poland; his postwar struggle to survive as a leader of a coalition government that included Communists, and his final flight to the West...