Word: stalinist
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...beat and Afghan vets who brawled with police and have the bruises to show for it. Even the music carries a message, whether it be a video from the Eurythmics that uses snippets from the film 1984 or a satiric jazz ditty from the Soviet group Akvarium, complete with Stalinist-era newsreels and pictures of a booted foot atop a typewriter and a saxophone. The show's philosophy, as explained by Zakharov: "The more glasnost there is on television, the more glasnost there will be in daily life...
...over us./ And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." So wrote Anna Akhmatova, perhaps Russia's finest woman poet, in Requiem, a moving testimony to those who kept vigils outside prison gates for loved ones swept away in the Stalinist reign of terror. Written between 1935 and 1940, the poem was not officially published in full until last year...
...answer session in the Oval Office, the president said he thought Gorbachev should be encouraged in the reforms he is pushing in the Soviet Union. "I think it is evident that he is running into opposition, that there are those who want to cling to more of the Stalinist policies," Reagan said...
...highest aspirations in the 1940s, and On the Waterfront did the same for American movies of the 1950s. In that period he also conceived and co-founded the most influential teaching institution in U.S. theater history, the Actors Studio. In addition, he earned the strident scorn of the Stalinist left and the enduring suspicion of simple-hearted followers of the party line because he was one of the most + prominent and least apologetic figures to name former Communist colleagues before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) when it was investigating the party's activities in show business...
This state of affairs is not surprising, given the hostility to innovation that has marked the long reign of conservative Composer Tikhon Khrennikov, 74, since 1948 the iron chancellor of the state Composers Union. The tough-minded, politically agile Stalinist, who was a point man for the infamous Resolution of 1948 that ripped Shostakovich and Prokofiev for modernism, Khrennikov brought a generation of composers to heel in the name of socialist realism...