Word: stalinist
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...influential leaders in the Communist world, Gomulka insisted that Communist countries should retain a degree of independence in domestic matters, even while supporting the general Soviet policy line, a view that resulted in his removal in 1948 as Poland's leader. Jailed from 1951 to 1954 for opposing Stalinist economic collectivization, he returned to power in 1956 following the Poznan "bread and freedom" riots. When Soviet troops massed in and around Poland that October, Gomulka is reported to have met Khrushchev's threat that he had mobilized his troops with the rejoinder, "So have I." The Soviets backed...
...long ago as 1830, a czarist surveyor named Alexander Shrenk suggested a way of easing this imbalance by diverting the northerly-flowing Pechora River into the Volga, the great river that sustains much of southern Russia. But even in the 1930s, the Stalinist heyday of dam building and hydroelectric construction, the scheme was considered no more than a mammoth pipedream...
...just about the same as the McCarthy hearings. This antiquarian outlook keeps Podhoretz from under-standing that the opposition to the war spring from something more than Communist tendencies or native. The unstated backbone of Podhoretz's argument is that there were really only two possibilities in Vietnam--Stalinist totalitarianism, or American-backed authoritarianism. What the New Left was saying--correctly--was that neither of those was any good, neither was worth wasting the lives of Americans or Vietnamese...
...lives in the thrall of sectarian myth. And maybe, more to the point, a somewhat larger number of"60s types who glorified a bit too strenuously the virtues of Fidel and Ho and Mao Sontag belongs, more or less, in both categories; she was born into the Manhattan neo-Stalinist school of the '30s and '40s (though she was never a supporter) and in the '60s revived her interest in Matters political to take an active part in the antiwar movement. She made the ritual pilgrimage to Hanoi in 1968, and, in a long, moving essay upon her return wrote...
...American liberals are wrong in thinking that the Soviet government is in the hands of relatively moderate men and that if we are not accommodating to them, we will strengthen the dreadful hawks waiting in the wings. I believe the contrary. The current leadership is dominated by parochial old Stalinists. What can be worse than that? The next generation will certainly be less parochial, and it will be post-Stalinist. The people who now run the Soviet Union are really very hawkish, and the alternative to them is not a still more hawkish group, but rather a group that...