Word: stalinization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trifle close, her figure was a trifle stout, and her face was round and beaming but she nonetheless had a special kind of glamour. As more than 100 news men and airport police surrounded her, a forest of microphones poking from their midst, Svetlana Stalina, 42, daughter of Joseph Stalin and by far the most prominent defector ever to pass through the Iron Curtain, gave her first greeting to the U.S. "Hello there, everybody," she said. "I am very happy to be here...
...stands. The most recent issue of Novy Mir is running a memoir by Boris Pasternak, whose work has been suspect ever since he allowed his Doctor Zhivago to be published in the West (where it ultimately sold 4,500,000 copies). The sketch relates how Pasternak once wrote to Stalin with sarcastic thanks for sparing him the same official adulation accorded Vladimir Mayakovsky, one of the great heroes of Soviet literature, and thus saving him from "blowing up my own importance." Evoking contempt for Mayakovsky, Pasternak says that his work "was introduced by force, like potatoes under Catherine the Great...
...Civil War, and the period of the first Five-Year Plan sparked considerable youthful idealism in Soviet Russia. Whatever enthusiasm had been generated, however, soon wore off by the mid-thirties. Continuous forced effort with little reward, and a stifling of self-expression in the arts and elsewhere after Stalin's consolidation of political control, brought on disillusionment. Furthermore, the harsh measures taken to force the peasants into collective farms had serious repercussions among the youth...
...over this progress lies the deep pall created by Vietnam. And this war is the last manifestation of the old stereotypes and the old policy. It is the direct outgrowth of ideas that captured our foreign policy leadership in the time of Stalin. This leadership initiated the present policy in Viet- nam as a reaction to the notion of a unified, all-embracing, world-wide conspiracy of Communism. It probes as the Secretary of State told us for years as did Hitler at Munich, or in a more recent view, as did Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg...
...diplomacy involved is a bit delicate, since the U.S. State Department would prefer not to turn the defection into any more of an international flap than it already is. Indeed, at first it seemed that the U.S. had turned down Stalin's daughter Svetlana, 41, when she showed up at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi. Last week, while Svetlana remained in hiding in Switzerland, the State Department clarified its position somewhat by reporting that it had in fact issued her a visa to come to the U.S.; the question of whether she will eventually be granted asylum...