Word: stalinist
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...plot is quite simple. An old man, once a leader of the Russian revolution, is arrested during the Communist purge trials of 1937, and his prosecutor uses terrifying intimidation to get a confession from him. Rubashov was one of the hundreds of old Bolsheviks whose deviation from the Stalinist "means justifies the end" philosophy meant certain death. His final hours are occupied by a challenge--he must decide between a silent, unobserved death, which would follow a confession for many crimes he did not commit, or death after a trial where he could speak out heroically against the new Bolshevism...
...also picked up a few dollars from tourists curious to see a nation of 38 mountainous square miles which calls itself the oldest republic (1,650 years) in the world. Nobody cared that for the past six years the Republic of San Marino had been Communist-run, the only Stalinist state outside the Iron Curtain...
...nation, voting would last several months, with polling booths to be set up whenever and wherever the fighting stopped for a while. The rice-rich country (which Red China would like to gobble up) has more than a dozen clashing political parties, at least two of which (the Stalinist White Flag Communists, the Trotskyite Red Flag Communists) are still in armed rebellion against the government. Besides, thousands of Karen tribesmen are waging guerrilla war against government forces. Legal opposition parties run the gamut from the frankly pro-Russian Workers & Peasants Party to the pro-British Burma Union Party, which advocates...
...Affairs, then organizer of the Red army and Lenin's No. 1 man, incorruptible, sarcastic, ruthless. Ten years later, having lost in the struggle for power with Joseph Stalin, Trotsky and his wife were chased out of Russia. They finally found refuge in Mexico where, in 1940, a Stalinist agent drove a pickax into the brain of Leon Trotsky...
Riffling the dead leaves of a bankrupt dream, neo-Marxist Mailer sees one faint hope, "socialist culture." This idea, which ex-Stalinist McLeod passes on to Lovett as a heritage-just before Government Agent Hollingsworth does him in-seems to be the precious "little object" the poor fellow has been nursing all along...