Word: stalinist
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...accompanying destruction, for the misery and unemployment, for the fear of a new war, for "senseless iron curtains and boundary barriers," and for unsettled racial conflicts. In the Soviet Union, the more sophisticated students are critical of the older generation for having been involved in, or permitted, the Stalinist excesses. More deeply, the young people are tired of hearing from the older generation about how hard they sacrificed in order to create a new social order...
...invariably an unfavorable one. Just as its Communist masters studiously remain remote from their subjects, East Germany itself remains remote not only from its German brothers but even from its socialist neighbors in Eastern Europe, who have no great affection either for Germans or for Walter Ulbricht's Stalinist style...
...wake of the purge of Kao Kang. Although the Commission was staffed by some important leaders, there were few indications that it was very active in the middle and late fifties. In any event, it was clearly not so ominous an organization as those created in the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union. Furthermore, since all of its 21 members worked in the national capital, the original Control Commission seemed to be mainly a clearing house for internal Party disciplinary measures. But then in 1962 the Party tripled the size of the Commission with some of the new members drawn...
...cost of the 17 issues published each year. With its tiny staff, the magazine manages to finish in the black most years. 1966-67 won't be one of them though; the Bulletin had to settle a substantial libel suit for calling a Hollywood movie director a "Stalinist type...
More for a Revisionist. Under the Stalinist system of centralized planning, newspapers were arbitrarily allocated newsprint and assigned press runs. Often the runs far exceeded the sales, but no matter: the State Committee on Publishing merely split the cost of unsold copies between distributors and the publishers. For the past two years, however, the government has been trying to make selected industries operate on a supply-and-demand basis. Applying this principle to the newspaper business, the government ordered that press runs be more closely matched to actual sales -hence the sudden circulation drop...