Word: stalinization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself of antiCommunism, Hall picked as a special target the international affairs department of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-whose militantly anti-Red policies were shaped by Jay Lovestone, 67, an almost-forgotten ideological dissident who in 1929 was purged as the national secretary of the U.S. Communist Party by Stalin, for a decade thereafter ran his own splinter faction, the Lovestonites, and in 1940 turned bitterly anti-Red. In Hall's romantic view, Old Comrade Lovestone's present operation is "an arm of the CIA involved in trying to get governments overthrown...
Last week's Russian journey is perhaps De Gaulle's grandest gesture-and quite likely his most valuable. Since 1945, when he was declared odd man out at Yalta by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, De Gaulle has put France back on the map as a major world power. He ended the debilitating war in Algeria and added a new dimension to Western handling of the "Third World"; he blew life into the Common Market, even if he chilled the aspirations of those who saw it as a way to political unity on the Continent. In one fell swoop...
Thomas prevented any chance of uniting the two rallies when he refused to speak on the same platform with Quill, whom he accused of being "too close to Stalin." The rallies, although eventually held separately, attracted more than 1000 people...
Whatever other differences Stalin and Khrushchev might have had, they were of like mind on one issue: they liked hummable music. In 1948, Russia's leading composers were summoned to a meeting and warned of the evils of the unmelodious music of Western modernists. Stick to "socialist realism," they were told. Under Nikita, the malady lingered on. Said he: "We flatly reject this cacophony music. Our people cannot use this rubbish as a tool of their ideology...
Thomas prevented any chance of uniting the two rallies when he refused to speak on the same platform with Quill, whom he accused of being "too close to Stalin." The rallies, although eventually held separately, attracted more than 1000 people...