Word: stalinist
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Scores of writers have by now testified to the peculiar sense of helplessness that life under Communism brings to the thinking idealist. Some are the muffled voices that come out of the chill fog of post-Stalinist "thaws," others angry protests of those driven to refuge in the West. Few have been more bitterly outspoken or better qualified to speak than Rumanian Novelist Petru Dumitriu, 40. Before he defected, Dumitriu's novels were widely read in Eastern Europe; he had been loaded with decorations and had risen to be editor of the country's most important literary magazine...
...Stalinist standards this was mild treatment, but was nevertheless clear warning to Polish intellectuals to stop their criticism. To judge, however, by Wankowicz' enthusiastic reception after the trial, at least some of them were flouting that warning...
...tame Communist Parliament were gathered to elect a new President. For weeks there had been hints that dour Antonin Novotny, 59, who for seven years has been both President and Communist Party chief, might lose the presidency, possibly as the first step to complete oblivion. Once a Stalinist who survived by ruthlessly killing off his rivals, Novotny had become a slavish follower of the deposed Nikita Khrushchev. During the recent Moscow ceremonies celebrating the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Novotny was noticeably absent from the Communist lineup atop Lenin's Tomb...
...over Khrushchev's fall, was quick to endorse B. & K. Gomulka wants to preserve his country's relative "Liberalism" and fears that a final split would cancel his freedom of action. The Polish public, however, fears that a détente with China might encourage the influential Stalinist elements that lurk within the Polish Communist Party...
When he was asked what he did during the Terror of the French Revolution, the aristocrat Emmanuel Sieyes replied, "I survived." If Soviet NoveMst llya Ehrenburg were asked about his own activities during the 20-year Stalinist terror, he might well give the same answer. Considering that just about every eminent Russian writer and artist was exiled, executed or hounded to suicide by the paranoid dictator, Ehren-burg's survival is one of the most remarkable literary achievements of modern times...