Word: stalinist
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Brian J. Kelly, a member of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) said that Stalinist policies have exploited the working class in the Soviet Union, which defeats the purpose of socialism. He also called for the overthrow of U.S. capitalism...
...that he has voiced inside the Soviet Union. That may merely reflect well-advised caution by a leader who has seen past efforts at reform, notably Andropov's, sabotaged by the bureaucracy. For all his decisiveness, Gorbachev is the head of what really is a collective leadership, not a Stalinist dictatorship. His reluctance to take on the planners may also reflect a concern that economic decentralization implies an easing of political controls, which Gorbachev does not intend or feels he cannot risk at this point...
...endless. Were the Americans acting as idealists, honoring a treaty commitment to an ally and defending freedom against Communist aggression? Or were they anti-Communist crusaders who committed atrocities against a land of peasants? Were the North Vietnamese under Ho Chi Minh austere and virtuous folk heroes, or murderous, Stalinist totalitarians who committed barbarities far worse than those of the Americans and South Vietnamese? Was Southeast Asia a line of dominoes waiting to fall, one after another, before the sinister push of Communism? Or was the region a complexity of nationalities, all different, with mutual historic antagonisms that predated...
...simplisms of the era, and therefore changed some old opinions. The North Vietnamese, whom Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos once called "the Prussians of Southeast Asia," have imposed a grim, repressive regime throughout the country, but most forcibly upon the South. Ambitious and militaristic and given to a Stalinist style of dogmatism, they have turned the South into a police state. They have even abolished the old National Liberation Front, which they had long billed as the voice of the people in revolutionary South Viet Nam. Though they run one of the poorest nations in the world, the Vietnamese invest...
...Soviet leader born after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the best educated since Lenin. His speech underscores his upbringing: his mastery of Russian grammar is superior to that of most of his Kremlin predecessors. He is the exemplar of the New Guard, which represents a generation raised after the Stalinist horrors and for which the catastrophe of World War II is an adolescent memory. Though much about Gorbachev remains a mystery...