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...monks that stumbled its way from Moscow to Cambridge recently didn’t seem to have any plans as logical as establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat up their embroidered sleeves—they were trying to reclaim the copper bells that a kindly Harvard alum saved from Stalin??s icy clutches seventy years ago before giving them a nice home on the Charles. Let’s review: if the bells weren’t annoying Harvard students every Sunday at one with their incessant ringing, they’d have been converted long ago into...
...board tacitly acknowledged that Duranty covered up the widespread Soviet famine of 1932-33, which claimed the lives of several million in Ukraine alone. But it isolated Duranty’s famine-denying articles from his Pulitzer articles on Stalin??s Five-Year Plan. “A Pulitzer Prize for reporting is awarded not for the author’s body of work or for the author’s character,” the board explained, “but for the specific pieces entered in the competition...
...Americans, would have deferred to the Times as somewhat authoritative on all matters Soviet. Many have speculated whether Duranty’s editors were aware of the gross deficiencies in his journalism. Again, it’s tough to tell, although Sally J. Taylor’s 1990 book Stalin??s Apologist alleged that several editors considered Duranty a Soviet stooge...
...passing up a chance to right a seven-decade-old wrong, the board tarnishes its image. As Canadian academic Lubomyr Luciuk, the UCCLA’s research director, tells me, its members have effectively “become apologists for Stalin??s apologist...
...1930s, the U.S. did not meddle in Stalin??s purges because Americans believed that factions within Soviet leadership would destroy each other (and Soviet socialism) through internecine fighting. Today, we cannot bank on such grand designs and must reassess our position vis-à-vis Russia’s “internal affairs.” (In fact, Putin already seems to be losing this battle as Greece has recently refused to extradite Gusinsky...