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Died. Boris Nicolaevsky, 78, renowned Kremlinologist, a Russian-born Social Democrat who in 1940, after 18 years of exile in Europe following expulsion by the Bolsheviks, arrived in the U.S. to write more than a dozen works on Soviet life, such as Forced Labor in Soviet Russia (1947), for which he and Co-Author David J. Dallin were denounced in the U.N. as "idiots or gangsters" by the late Andrei Vishinsky; of a heart attack; in Menlo Park, Calif...
...Kremlinologist Christian Duvael diagnoses as "the fatigue of ideology" in the Soviet bloc. As Marxism proved less and less relevant to the economic and social problems of contemporary society, Soviet ideologues came to realize that they could no longer be solved in class-war terms. As the old terror abates but never entirely vanishes, as the old dogmas die but never get buried, intellectuals in Russia and Eastern Europe increasingly feel as "alienated" from their own societies as some of their Western counterparts. When British Poet Stephen Spender recently told a gathering of Polish writers that what he wanted...
...some 160 Russian correspondents overseas; in many of the underdeveloped nations of Africa and Asia, they outnumber their Western counterparts, and they often scoop the West on stories in these areas. "There are plenty of capable newsmen waiting for someone to open the door," says a Columbia University Kremlinologist who monitors the Soviet press...
...conversation took place three times a day, and it involved an exotic mixture of personalities. On the dais waiting to deliver their addresses, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich sat with that outrider of neutralism, Nobel-prize-winning Chemist Linus Pauling. At another panel, Kremlinologist George Kennan, onetime Ambassador to Russia and Yugoslavia, clashed with Dr. Adam Schaff, the leading Marxist theoretician of Poland...
Western Russia-and China-watchers are carefully studying the attack, and Berlin Kremlinologist Richard Lowenthal concludes that, far from being merely another anti-Russian blast, it is in effect "Mao Tse-tung's ideological testament." For the document warns that the same sort of wicked reversion to capitalism that is happening...