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...mordant wit and intensity. As a kind of historical prosecuting attorney, Revel puts Joseph Stalin in the dock, then offers witnesses to the crime of totalitarianism. It was the murderous Russian dictator who showed the 20th century how to construct a hermetically sealed tyranny, says Revel. It is the Stalinist model that is being sedulously imitated around the globe...
...important than the basic nature of Communism. Said Kissinger: "We are entitled to certain skepticism about the sincerity of declarations of independence which coincide so precisely with electoral self-interest. One need not be a cynic to wonder at the decision of the French Communists, traditionally perhaps the most Stalinist party in Europe, to renounce the Soviet concept of dictatorship of the proletariat without a single dissenting vote among 1,700 delegates, as they did at their party congress in February 1976, when all previous party congresses had endorsed the same dictatorship of the proletariat by a similar unanimous vote...
...denied a visa because he had been accused of being a cardcarrying Communist. Fairbank spent much of the next few years defending himself, as well as many of his colleagues from the broad-based Institute of Pacific Relations, against allegations that they had been part of a Stalinist conspiracy that had "lost" China from "the free world." Although Fairbank himself was eventually cleared by the committee, his wife says that his "public participation fell away drastically": Fairbank was not again asked to write for publications like the New York Times Book Review for more than a decade...
...politics. A lifelong Communist, he was appointed to head the party's Culture and Propaganda Committee in Bohemia only a year after the 1948 Communist coup d'état toppled Prague's last democratic government. Although he served as an agitprop official throughout the Stalinist terror, he later became an active supporter within the party of its leading liberal, Alexander Dubček. It was during Dubček's brief tenure as party chief that Kaplan began his career as sort of closet archivist of the previous regimes...
...Kaplan received an appointment as research director of the Committee for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Political Trials, which had been established by Dubček to investigate the repressive practices of the Stalinist period. In this job, Kaplan had the opportunity to examine and, presumably, to copy documents on a wide range of subjects...