Word: stalinist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Marble. The life of a Polish Everyman-Stalinist hero turned Stalinist victim-is examined in Andrzej Wajda's intricate, ironic study of humanity distorted by totalitarianism. The irony has become yet more bitter: Wajda, head of the Polish filmmakers' union, is now reported under arrest...
...that Marxism was in any sense to blame for the terrors of Stalinism. But it is hard to deny that Marxism-particularly as interpreted by Lenin-provided many of the concepts, attitudes and institutions that made Stalinism possible. Ex-Communists such as Arthur Koestler, author of the famous anti-Stalinist novel Darkness at Noon, have argued persuasively that Communism is corrupt and corrupting because of the brutal way that power is often attained and maintained. As the absolute embodiment of both power and corruption, Stalin represented an extreme but not an aberration...
...Communists were frozen out of power with the inauguration of the cold war and slumped into a thoroughly Stalinist mold. Indeed, the first word of anti-Soviet criticism from the P.C.F. did not come until the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, and even that was muted. In the same year, the party dashed the faith of many leftist true believers by refusing to support the insurrectionist "May events," which eventually undermined De Gaulle's presidency. The Communists saw no opportunity to take control of the worker-student rebellion that shook France, and therefore labeled it counterrevolutionary...
...moral dilemmas of Soviet life in such subtle, allusive works as The House on the Embankment (1976), The Long Goodbye (1971) and The Exchange (1969); of a heart attack following a kidney operation; in Moscow. Trifonov, whose father, a high Bolshevik official, was imprisoned and executed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s and whose mother was sent to a prison camp, once explained: "A lot of things can be said best through art, through metaphor...
Last week the anti-Semitic specter appeared to rise again. On the surface the rally staged by about 1,000 Polish war veterans in front of the former secret police headquarters in Warsaw seemed respectable enough. The veterans had ostensibly come to pay homage to the victims of Stalinist terror in Poland in the early '50s. But a disturbing anti-Semitic strain began to sound through the nationalistic rhetoric. Orators singled out Jews in the Stalin-era Polish secret police and government as the torturers and murderers of "Polish patriots." Declared a former soldier in Poland's Home...