Word: stalinist
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...Negro spirituals, many of Russia's ballads draw their inspiration from the experience of slavery. In the fearful days of Stalin, the bitter, poignant songs of prisoners, which wafted beyond the gates of the slave labor camps, were known and hummed by millions of Soviet citizens. Although the Stalinist terror has since subsided, the memories endure. In magnitizdat, Russians sing of their struggle to maintain integrity in a society that all too often has brutalized its citizens. The stanza of one famous song begins: "Our own war is a hand-to-hand combat between honor and evil-something people...
There was another reason why he could not stay. The day after the signing ceremony, Aug. 1 3, was the ninth anniversary of the building of the Wall. It cut off the flow of East Germans trapped within the Stalinist satrapy of Walter Ulbricht, whose regime even today is based on the presence of 20 Soviet divisions...
...legacy of suppression that began with the Soviet bombardment of Kronstadt led directly to the Stalinist terror and to the faceless, cynical technocracy that the Soviet Union is today. That alone, in retrospect, would make the attack on the fortress absurd. But the burning irony of Kronstadt is that, before the siege began, at a time when it might have been stopped or called off, the real perpetrators were nowhere to be found...
...done a thorough, factual job, but the reader is left short of seeing the heated interface of West's artistic ambitions and the political exigencies of his era. Part of Martin's problem lies in his understanding of the political atmosphere of the thirties. Liberal, Trotskyite, Socialist and Stalinist are used interchangeably, or with the most superficial transitions. But West's relation to the different political groups is never satisfactorily explained, consequently abandoning an important interpretive tool. The work is an invaluable source book, but "The Art of His Life" as the subtitle hints, would be better examined...
This year, for the first time since World War II, Enver Hoxha's Stalinist regime has decided to admit-in groups of 30-West German tourists. The total cost for three weeks, including air fare, food and accommodations, is only $140. There is a slight catch, though: to help Hoxha's fledgling "Action Through Concentrated Blows" program, which is much like China's "Great Leap Forward," tourists who sign up for this government-approved package deal must spend four hours a day laboring in Albania's picturesque farm fields. Germans are ordinarily compulsive tourists...