Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a giant moth attempting to break out of a cocoon, Soviet Communism is trying to rid itself of a doctrine conceived a century ago in a far different world. Though Lenin had to revise Marx to fit the Russian pattern, it was Nikita Khrushchev who launched the official decline...
Communism's first 50 years must be judged primarily by its effects on "the fatherland of socialism," by the way in which it has affected Russian life and Russia's attitudes toward the rest of the world. TIME here examines five im portant facets of that life: 1...
The Unfulfilled Promise of Communism The October Revolution promised far more than it was even remotely capable of producing: nothing less than the restructuring of man himself. Despite their adulation of materialism, the Bolsheviks naively dreamed of a society governed by goodness, set up to eliminate selfishness and devoted to...
The Marxist belief in the solidarity of socialist states has been rudely shattered both by Russia's dispute with China and by the independent ways adopted by the countries of Eastern Europe. The Communist monolith has crumbled into testy denominationalism, and the Marxist mystique of Communism's historical...
As the economic reforms move forward, Russian life is undergoing the greatest degree of liberalization since the revolution's early days. There is increasing freedom of speech and opinion-though in a much smaller amount than in the West.