Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is a far cry from the days of Lenin and Stalin, when Moscow was truly the capital of the world revolution. Housed in a dingy building just across the street from the Kremlin, the Comintern ran a shadowy, tightly organized network of agents and conspirators who carried Moscow's orders to parties far and near. In those days, the first duty of a Communist anywhere in the world was to support the Soviet Union. Stalin said: "A revolutionary is one who without arguments, unconditionally, openly and honestly is ready to defend and strengthen the U.S.S.R...
...rights. Among the ten signers was former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, arrested last month for anti-Soviet activities; Grigorenko's name was signed by his wife. Other signers included Pyotr Yakir, who has spent 17 years in a concentration camp, and whose father, a general, was executed during Stalin's purges of the Red army, and Leonid Petrovsky, whose grandfather was once chairman of the region of the Ukraine. Both Yakir and Petrovsky have lost jobs as historians; Grigorenko has not worked since his ouster from the army in 1964. Excerpts from their petition...
...20th and 22nd congresses exposed and condemned Stalin for his heinous crimes against the party and the people. The Stalinist autocratic dictatorship, the tyranny of the security organs that for decades held society in an atmosphere of constant fear and terror, the concentration camps in which millions of innocent people perished, the criminal policy on nationalities under which whole nations were repressed, the blind alley our national economy had reached, the stagnation of science and culture, the low wage level, the low consumption level, the catastrophic housing crisis and many monstrous manifestations of the Stalinist dictatorship were condemned...
...public sonnets vary in mood and tone. Some are simple, even simpleminded, like one devoted to Senator Eugene McCarthy ("I love you so". . .). Some labor through metaphorical complexities. Stalin, for instance, begins botanically, switches to a feline metaphor ("What shot him clawing up the trunk of power?") and finally reaches a fine physiological line, "his intimates dying like the spider-bridegroom?/ The large stomach could only chew success...
...certain deductions can be drawn from Nabokov's writing. In Bend Sinister, he composed a picture of crude, lumpish evil-in-power, and he put Yeats' much quoted "rough beast" into a Bolshevik or Nazi Bethlehem. Thus Prospero-Nabokov always knew Caliban, whether he was known as Hitler or Stalin or by some other name...