Word: stalinist
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...Exposed as the authors of particularly controversial stories, Alex ei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were arrested last September but were brought to trial only last week. Their writings, published outside Russia under the psuedonyms Tertz and Arzhak, were fantastic portrayals of Soviet society. Sinyavsky depicted the horrors of the Stalinist trials and the inner workings of Stalin's regime in one of his short stories, "The Trial Begins." Daniel's tale "Moscow Speaks" envisioned a day of legalized crime and violence throughout the country. Writing in a grotesquely symbolic style reminiscent of Kafka and Dostoyevsky, the two authors explored...
...nearly 18 months, Prague economists and apparatchiks have been hard at work on "NEM"-a New Economic Model for the nation designed to liberate the Czech economy from the worst rigidities of Stalinist central planning and to introduce widespread Western profit incentives for factory managers. Though the plan has yet to be unveiled, last week Prague's Central Committee published a 19,000-word preamble to NEM that was remarkable in its candor about past mistakes...
Piqued by the ideas popularized by Soviet Economist Evsei Liberman, the command economies of Communist Europe are openly and eagerly adopting such capitalist tenets as cost accounting and the profit motive. East Germany, Czechoslovakia and other formerly Stalinist satrapies are cautiously granting more powers to local managers to. boost or slash production, prices, investments and labor forces. State enterprises in Poland, Hungary and Rumania this year closed deals to start joint companies in partnership with capitalist Western firms...
...Russian literary underground runs deep. Tertz has made his mark as a bitter, bedrock enemy of Communism, while Sinyavsky merely mocks its Stalinist aspects. To Kremlinologists from Bonn to Washington, this suggested that Sinyavsky might be one of those Russian writers who produce critical work that is acceptable for open publication, but whose best efforts are for the "drawer"-they cannot be published anywhere but in the West. Thus a foreigner reading a noted critic's articles in Literaturnaya Gazeta may get a wholly false impression of his talents. Of one bottom-drawer writer, a Soviet official recently exclaimed...
...very easy to tell East Berliners from West Berliners simply by their clothes. The deadly gloom of East Berlin's Unter den Linden has lately been relieved by a couple of fashionable boutiques and some six-story buildings of aluminum and glass. The ponderous, ugly neoclassicism of the Stalinist era is shunned by the city's chief architect, Joachim Mather, 40, who draws his inspiration from Manhattan's Lever House. But to step into glistening West Berlin is still not only to step into another country; it is almost to visit another planet...