Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quick Jump. Rumania, which like Czechoslovakia has been slow at reforming itself, got busy immediately. Rumania's Party Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej last week fired from his Politburo two oldtime Stalinists-Minister of Education Miron Constantinescu and Central Committee Secretary Iosif Chisinevschi, long No. 2 man to Gheorghiu-Dej himself. The expulsions, announced Bucharest smugly, took place at a Rumanian party plenum which ended only 48 hours after the downfall of Molotov...
Russian composers patriotically hymned Soviet heroes during World War II, and the good will they thus banked at the Kremlin gave them a brief period of postwar freedom. But by 1948, an iron hand had closed tightly around Soviet composers. The hand was that of Andrei Zhdanov, cat-cruel Politburo careerist whose ear for music had been destroyed long before by the din of dialectical crossfire. Zhdanov in effect put all Russian composers on trial, including the three modern giants-Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian. The charges: "formalism" (i.e., art for art's sake, individuality, experimentation...
Putrament's forecast was hardly in print before the Politburo was directing all Polish Communists to fight on two fronts: against "sectarians," a discreet new name for the Stalinists, and against "revisionists," the derogatory new name for the liberal hopefuls. By last week it was becoming clearer that the brunt of the attack is being borne by the revisionists...
Party Conscience. Nowak was a member of the hated Bierut Politburo during the years Gomulka was under arrest, a sponsor of schemes to prevent Gomulka's return to power after the Poznan riots, a champion of the policy of encouraging anti-Semitism in order to divert the anger of the masses from the Stalinist party leaders. Nowak's name had been stricken from the list of candidates for the new Parliament...
...Matching these concessions by trying to reassert Communist control over the farmers, Wladyslaw Gomulka appointed Politburo Member Edward Ochab (once called "a Communist with teeth" by Stalin) to take over the Ministry of Agriculture. Tough and toothy Ochab would have much to chew...