Word: stalinization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many-columned courtroom where Powers was brought to trial after 108 days in solitary confinement had seen history made before: in the days when it was still the Noblemen's Club. Pushkin and Tolstoy relaxed there, later the bodies of Lenin and Stalin lay there in state. But Powers seemed unmindful of history, and the faraway cities of which he talked were apparently little more than dots on the map to him. A man who by his testimony belonged to no political party and had never voted. Powers was simply an expert airplane chauffeur describing his trade...
Showpiece. To demonstrate to the world through this uncomplicated flyer the "insane aggressiveness'' of the U.S., Nikita Khrushchev had set up a show trial that evoked memories of Stalin's purge productions of the 1930s. All morning long in the cold Moscow rain, the black ZIM limousines rolled up to the court to disgorge Soviet Russia's Reddest-blooded aristocrats, including Khrushchev's daughter Elena. Out of the unaccustomed luxury of one of the ZIMs stepped Powers' wife, Barbara, 25. poised and cool in black, flanked by her mother and two lawyers. From another...
Beating the drums for the approaching showcase trial of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Moscow's propagandists sent Russia into its worst case of spy fever since Stalin's time. Day after day the Soviet press hammered away at the insidiousness of foreign influences ("I began to have unhealthy thoughts as a result of my enthusiasm for jazz"), reported with horror fresh cases of foreign visitors "caught" spying "under cover of the mask of tourism." After years of pleas for greater cultural exchange with the West, the Kremlin now seemed alarmed over the impact that...
Less Visible Chains. Because the Soviet Union alone is excused from limiting itself to certain specialties, COMECON is fast binding the satellites to greater dependence on Russia than they knew in Stalin's time. By 1965 Russia's share of Czech foreign trade will rise from a third to more than half...
Pauling's scientific credentials are of unalloyed gold. He won his 1954 Nobel Prize for his explanation of the chemical forces that make atoms stick together as the molecules that are the stuff of all matter. His book, The Nature of the Chemical Bond (condemned for "idealism" in Stalin's Russia), is a scientific classic. Pauling has branched into other fields of science, including biochemistry and genetics, with distinguished results. Even now, his attempt to find the hereditary chemical causes of mental deficiencies is beginning to show exciting progress...