Word: stalinist
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Castro's return to the realm of pragmatism coincided with a reconciliation with Russia. Not only did Fidel abandon his ideas of active connivance in Latin American guerrilla movements, but, Karol argues through his fiercely anti-Stalinist perspective, Castro adopted the Russian model of development of the 1930's based on low consumption and high investment behind a centralized and vertical power structure operating in the name of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Karol indicates that, to justify this new position, Castro made several theoretical distortions, and abandoned his earlier anti-Stalinism and recognition that Cuba was not a proletarian...
KONSTANTIN KATUSHEV, 43, is one of the first of the truly post-Stalinist politicians to emerge on the national Soviet scene. He is one of only twelve members in their 40s on the 195-member Central Committee, and he is expected to be elected an alternate Politburo member at the Congress. His main liability may well be his close identification with Brezhnev, who has furthered Katushev's rise. Born in Gorky, he was educated as a metallurgical engineer and went to work in the auto-and-tank works there. In 1961 he switched over to full-time party work...
...Robbe-Grillet's descriptions of objects), in order to take us in, to wreck that corrupt humanist tranquillity in which we once thought we existed. If Duet for Cannibals were pushing a Marxist line, an ideological "content," by equally subversive means, we could call it insidious propaganda, pure Stalinist instrumentation of policy formulated in isolation from the masses. But it doesn't push any "meaning" whatsoever, and hardly allows the reflection time necessary for didactic assimilation. Mainly it's surfaces, it's "erotics," an experience that excludes the intellect as much as possible in order to exist as itself...
Died. Matyas Rakosi, 78, Hungarian Communist leader during the 1940s and '50s; in Gorky, U.S.S.R. A ruthless Stalinist, Rakosi was known and hated for his brutal skill in disposing of opponents. After Stalin's death, Rakosi slickly adjusted to the new line. He remained in power until 1956, was forced to resign, and just before the Hungarian uprising, fled to the Soviet Union...
Died. Nikolai Shvernik, 82, loyal Stalinist and President of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1954; in Moscow. Shvernik made his mark as a trade unionist, becoming leader of the movement in 1930 after his predecessor had been purged for showing too much interest in the welfare of workers; Shvernik transformed the unions into instruments of the state that put production before workers' rights, thus greatly assisting industrial growth...