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...Rajk. Students and intellectuals openly demanded "an end to this present regime of gendarmes and bureaucrats." The Russians sent First Deputy Premier Mikoyan down to Budapest to suggest that Rakosi take a health cure in Russia. The Russian solution: to supplant one gendarme bureaucrat by another. Old-Line Stalinist Erno Gero, the ruthless agent "Pedro" of the Spanish civil war (TIME, July 30), was pushed into the Hungarian leadership in July of this year, and told to clear his "liberalization" plans with Tito...
Such a development, admittedly speculative but known to have been considered by the Khrushchev faction, still seemed a distant objective. Another suggestion, coming from Paris and Vienna, had it that Khrushchev, far from checking or reversing the destalinization program in deference to the Stalinist group, might be planning to accelerate it with the posthumous trial of Joseph Stalin. No newcomer to the ranks of rumor, this suggestion springs from a careful study of Khrushchev's Feb. 25 speech denouncing Stalin, much of which is couched in legalistic language...
Such was the confusion that pervaded France's Communist Party, long the most Stalinist outside the Iron Curtain, on the eve of its first congress since Khrushchev pulled the plug on Stalin last February. The workers, taught to regard pale ex-Miner Maurice Thorez as a French Stalin, were in ferment; the intellectuals, a small but important faction because of their contacts with influential fellow travelers, were distraught and openly disobeyed party rulings. The party cell at Paris' Lycée Voltaire, for example, continued to welcome former L'Humanité Editor Pierre Hervé, though...
This exchange, which took place during Nikita Khrushchev's historic speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party last February, was deliberately leaked to Western newsmen in Moscow a fortnight later. As a statement of official responsibility during the Stalinist terror, it got to the heart of the matter. But only last week was the Kremlin ready to let the Russian people in on the dialogue−and then only on part...
...Writers' Union congress could revive the dead, nor could so many veteran sycophants make sense of their new function. Sensing change, Fadeyev handed down a new line, appealed for less "socialist realism." At the sensational 20th Party Congress last February, Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov (whose way of protesting the Stalinist regime had been to produce almost no creative work since he wrote The Quiet Don two decades ago) made an outright attack on Fadeyev, calling him a power-loving bureaucrat who practices the cult of personality. By praising Gorky in the highest terms, Sholokhov revived the old mystery...