Word: stalinization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dacha outside Moscow, Nikita could take some comfort in the fact that he was not yet being subjected to the treatment given to that other fallen leader-Josef Stalin. In the current Novy Mir, wartime Soviet Ambassador to London Ivan Maisky cuttingly elaborates on the tale that Stalin locked himself in his Kremlin study the day the Nazis invaded Russia and didn't bother to come out until four days later, by which time Hitler's hordes had the Red Army reeling all along the Russian front. But someone high in the Kremlin must recall old Joe with...
LOVE AND REVOLUTION, by Max Eastman. An adventure-filled autobiography by the first of the Red-struck young U.S. intellectuals to comprehend the terrors and cruelties of Stalin's Russia. Eastman's only regret at 82 is that he didn't crowd even more into his life...
...first postwar decade, Joseph Stalin's meddling in the Middle East was largely limited to Russia's immediate neighbors, Turkey and Iran-where he had scant success. But the ubiquitous Khrushchev boldly leapfrogged smack into the area, sending legions of comrade plenipotentiaries armed with aid, or ready to aid with arms. Today, from the great shell of the Aswan High Dam rising from the Egyptian Nile to T-54 tanks rumbling down the boulevards of Baghdad, with swarms of MIG jets on patrol over Syria or strafing Royalist rebels in Yemen, the Soviet presence in the Middle East...
...Soviet state, such as the confiscation of all private radio receivers or the summary street-corner execution of suspected civilian traitors. The most egregious example is his treatment of the controversy over the tragic Warsaw uprising in the summer of 1944. The consensus of Western historians holds that Stalin apparently held back the capture of that city until the anti-Communist Polish underground was destroyed by the Germans. After a seesawing summary of the argument, but without substantial new evidence, Werth chooses to agree for the most part with the official Soviet self-exoneration...
...through Tirana's normally trafficless streets, and the military display included a few rockets, probably donated by Red China. Albanian Party Boss Enver Hoxha ranted his way through a three-hour speech hailing the removal of Khrushchev but blasting the new Soviet leadership for its failure to rehabilitate Stalin, who, said Hoxha, was a great Marxist-Leninist even though "he may have committed some small errors." Hoxha sneered that the new Soviet leaders "would like to have us Albanians go to Moscow and bow before them because we are a small country while they represent a big country. They...