Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...validity of the charges hardly mattered. What mattered was that in the big power picture Nikita Khrushchev was in clear ascendancy. At 63 Khrushchev was five years older than Stalin had been when he had eliminated his rivals in the power struggle. Khrushchev is full of a peasant's energy (despite kidney trouble); he is shrewd, opportunistic, audacious, pragmatic. But he also has a vastly more experienced, stronger and more watchful Communist hierarchy to deal with, and the apparatus of the secret police on which Stalin relied has to some extent been dismantled...
...crisis is Europe's portion after three wars (two world and one cold), but the crises would be of a different order if old Europe were not becoming a more comfortable place to live in than ever before, and this fact is a historical event as important as Stalin's death...
...became apparent that Chairman Mao was putting himself on a par not just with Khrushchev but with the prophets of Marxism. "Marx and Engels." Mao had said with bland Oriental condescension, "did not know about these problems . . . Lenin mentioned them but did not enlarge upon them ... As for Stalin, his opinions can be considered only negatively...
...break with Moscow, Albania's Communist Party was an appendage of Belgrade. The 1949 split led to anguished choices in Albania. Communists loyal to Moscow and those loyal to Tito engaged in bitter no-quarter warfare in which whole families were wiped out. Hoxha, who chose Stalin instead of Tito and came out on top, at one point acknowledged that 12,000 party members had been expelled or had "deserted" to Yugoslavia...
...satellites, Albanians the only one where there was no easing up after Stalin's death, and when Moscow made friends with Tito two years ago, Albania conspicuously did not join the comradeship. In fact, whenever Moscow wants to show its contempt of Tito, it lets Albania's Dictator Hoxha denounce him, and then lengthily quotes Hoxha in Pravda. This is doubly humiliating because Tito detests Hoxha, and believes that if he is to be shot at, Moscow might at least use heavier artillery...