Word: stalinization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEATH OF STALIN (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Not to be confused with Playhouse 90's controversial, fictionalized account of Stalin's death, which got CBS News kicked out of the U.S.S.R. in 1958, this NBC White Paper, aired early in 1963, is a straightforward documentary, but the Russians kicked NBC News out anyway. (CBS News was reinstated in 1960, but NBC is still banned...
Trimming the Bureaucracy. Post-Stalin liberalism in the bloc is bringing self-criticism and some slow improvement. The Czech government is turning back to private ownership in such small enterprises as tailor shops, laundries and hat-check concessions. To provide more laborers, it is also trimming a bureaucracy swollen to 750,000 unproductive clerks and minor officials. To get hard currency for grain and machinery imports, it is wooing Western tourists with film and jazz festivals and easy visas. Last week, in one of the biggest policy decisions so far, State Planning Commission Chairman Oldrich Cernik announced that factories that...
...Gaulle's later maneuvers obscured his victory over the Communists. In December 1944, he traveled to Moscow to sign a pact with Stalin. Later, as head of the provisional government, ic brought some Communists into his Cabinet. But by then he could afford to be conciliatory, for the Communist threat had receded. For all the praise and blame heaped on De Gaulle, little has been made of this particular triumph. Robert Aron has finally given it the scholarly attention and admiration it deserves...
...Thorez had deserted from the French Army and spent the last years of World War II in Moscow. When De Gaulle signed his friendship treaty with the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1944 (as he recalled in his memoirs), Stalin said: "If I were in your place, I would not put Thorez in prison," adding with one of his cynical smiles, "At least not right away...
Died. Maurice Thorez, 64, longtime French Communist chieftain, a coal miner turned professional revolutionary, who took control of the party as secretary general in 1934, ran it as a mirror of the Kremlin, slavishly devoted first to Stalin, then to Khrushchev, seeing it grow to nearly 1,000,000 members after World War II only to decline rapidly (current membership: 240,000) in the face of European prosperity, until, suffering from chronic ill health, he "elevated" himself to president last May, leaving everyday tactics to another man; of an apparent heart attack aboard a Russian ship traveling to Yalta...