Word: stalinist
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...trials. One of the most recent exiles is Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, 47, a renowned mathematical logician, and a former leader of the dissident movement in Russia. The son of the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin and a Jewish mother, the mathematician was pressured to leave after serving terms in a Stalinist concentration camp and, later, in prison lunatic asylums. He is now in Rome and hopes to come to the U.S. to teach...
...campaign of vilification by Soviet authorities, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia's Nobel-prizewinning novelist, for years refused to discuss with foreigners the charges against him. His best-known works (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First Circle) deal mainly with the victims of Stalinist terror. Last week, in a dramatic departure from his earlier reticence, Solzhenitsyn talked with two Western newsmen about his own precarious existence under an increasingly hostile regime. Said he: "A kind of forbidden contaminated zone has been created around my family...
...Oliver and David Copperfield. Like Dickens, Chaplin never forgot the wink of the pavement and the leer of the gutter. Also like Dickens, he was enchanted with radical politics -at a proper distance. In fact, despite his sponsorship of Soviet-American friendship meetings and loud avowal of Stalinist causes, Chaplin was the kind of political naif who would only fellow-travel in first class...
...farm. For decades, many liberal intellectuals have overheated their imaginations and their prose on an image of Trotsky as the unbending political outcast and talented literary man. To his closest followers, he was a saint who suffered his final martyrdom in Mexico on Aug. 20, 1940, when a Stalinist assassin buried an Alpine ax in the old Bolshevik's head...
...most famous of these avant-gardists is Vladimir Mayakovsky, made poet laureate of the revolution after he shot himself in 1930 in despair. His posthumous canonization was a bit of Stalinist genius, for while he was alive, Mayakovsky had consistently been at odds with the Communist part. On receiving an autographed copy of one of Mayakovsky's books, Lenin remarked, "You know, this is quite interesting literature. It's a peculiar kind of communism, it's hooligan communism...