Word: stalinization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst mistake of his life. He dropped in on Boris Pasternak at his Moscow apartment. Pasternak he knew he could trust, but there were four other Russian writers in the room. But Mandelstam was too wrought up to be wary. He passionately recited an "epigram" he had written about Stalin...
...concentrate his activity at the Central Committee." Shelepin, 47, was "relieved" of his posts as Deputy Premier and head of a key committee exercising vigilance over every aspect of Soviet life from the army to the arts. To many Western Kremlin watchers, the lean, strongly "positioned Shelepin seemed "the Stalin of the future." He may have looked that way to his peers in the Kremlin as well, for his removal last week from half of his jobs was brusque and unceremonious. His watchdog committee was even broken up. Shelepin, however, retained his place in the Secretariat and Presidium; unless...
...White Russian charlatan, served as an acolyte in the Episcopal Church and bombarded Roosevelt with allegorically couched advice on foreign policy. And, despite his closeness to the land and his concern for those who live by it, even overcoming his early abhorrence of Communism, Wallace came to defend Stalin's brutal collectivization of Soviet agriculture as a great humanitarian venture...
...shadow of Soviet imperialism lengthened over Europe, he advocated a conciliatory line toward the nation's wartime ally. On Sept. 12, 1946, he made a celebrated speech condemning the Administration's hardening attitude toward the Soviets at the very moment that the U.S. was sparring with Stalin over Europe's post-war boundaries. Infuriated by Wallace's intrusion, which suggested that the U.S. was disunited on the Cold War issues he was negotiating, Secretary of State James Byrnes protested loudly from Paris. Though Truman had been given a copy of the speech in advance, he fired...
...paper, portrayed Trotsky as "a midget, whose actions were downright silly. Yet how could such a midget mislead the people?" Obviously, declared Red Star's own hatchetman, "he was an experienced and powerful demagogue"-and should be shown as such. It was also time for the truth about Stalin, who in the film has nothing to say and "just keeps puffing away on his pipe." Huffed Red Star: "The authors evidently felt that historical objectivity has thus been given its due," making it quite clear that the Kremlin thinks the old killer, for all his evil deeds, deserves more...