Word: stalinization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Useful criticism is necessary and helpful. But naive, ridiculous arguments as "Why should the U.S. engage in a war halfway around the world?" are irrational. Does anyone remember Pearl Harbor, Stalin's abortive promises at Yalta, the Communization of Eastern Europe? Maybe Korea rings a bell...
...girl at the age of 37, she tried to remember what had happened. She wrote it all down in 35 days as a group of letters. And it was surely the darkest and most poignant princess story ever told. For never before was there a king like evil Joseph Stalin and a princess as sweet and troubled as Svetlana Alliluyeva...
...Maybe when I've written it all down," Stalin's only surviving child says, "an unbearable burden of some kind will fall from my shoulders at last and then my real life will begin." What she has written down is a family chronicle of sorrowful revelations and pastoral reminiscences, a series of personal footnotes to a convulsion of history. Now 41 and living in the U.S., she will be remembered as one of the great witnesses to loneliness amidst power, to innocence amidst corruption...
...Halle, was a sharp spasm in the world balance of power, caused by Russia's overexpansion into Europe at the end of World War II. Just as Napoleon's France and the Germanys of Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler had upset the power balances of the past, Stalin's push into the vacuum after 1945 precipitated years of struggle to restore the balance. As Halle sees it, the Allies largely had themselves to blame. "It would have been better in the two World Wars," he writes, "if the restoration of a balance of power had been...
Toward Waterloo. Ironically, says Halle, Stalin himself felt that Russia was overextended after the fait accompli that gave Moscow control over Eastern Europe. He also argued vehemently against the Yugoslavian-backed attempt to communize Greece by guerrilla warfare. Stalin asked the Yugoslavs: "Do you think that Great Britain and the U.S. - the U.S., the most powerful state in the world - will permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean? Nonsense." Stalin was right: the Truman Doctrine grew out of that struggle, and Stalin's successors could never expand their empire...