Word: stalinization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protect the fatherland and all countries of the Socialist community against any plots of aggressors." If Chou was impressed, he did not show it. To demonstrate his continued disdain for Khrushchevian wrong-think, he ducked around the back of Lenin's Tomb and paid a reverential visit to Stalin's modest grave outside the Kremlin wall...
...viet secret police arrested Olga Ivinskaya, the handsome blonde poetess who had been Pasternak's great love, soul mate, literary agent and secretary -and his model for the tender and generous Lara. It was the second time Olga had had to pay for her devotion: after the Stalin regime accused Paster nak of intellectual heresy, she spent four years in a concentration camp, was re leased only in the amnesty following Stalin's death in 1953. Last week, possibly as a consequence of Khrushchev's ouster, Olga, at 59, was again free...
Ehrenburg claims it was pure chance; others say he made a deal with Stalin...
Certainly he was as nimble and tricky a performer on the teeter-totter board of Communist politics as the world has seen. He was unique in being allowed to live abroad most of the time between World Wars. Back in Russia during World War II, he was Stalin's chief propagandist and heaped praise on his boss. After the war, though a Jew himself, he aided Stalin's ferocious purge of Soviet Jews by ridiculing Jewish solidarity and calling Israel a "laughable dwarf caoitalist state." After Stalin's death, Ehrenburg led the fight for freer artistic expression...
...many as possible, as if to atone in some slight way for their "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short lives. His portraits are touching, affectionate, anecdotal, but he scrupulously avoids discussing the writers' ideas. Only obliquely does he hint that many of the Russian writers were victims of Stalin, and by the time of their death thoroughly disgusted with Communism...