Word: stalinization
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...Communist Party. Vladimir Illyich Lenin was not the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet - the USSR's titular Head of State. That role was filled by his lieutenant Yakov Sverdlov. But the Communist Party leader, as Chairman of the Cabinet, held real executive power. The same was true of Joseph Stalin and his titular Head of State, Mikhail Kalinin. Nikita Khrushchev combined the offices of the Gensek and Prime Minister, while Leonid Brezhnev combined his leadership of the party with the role of head of state, because he desired the 24-gun salute and red carpet treatment on his foreign visits...
...Army (PLA) invaded Tibet. The New York Times and other international media outlets covered the desperate radio broadcasts of a “shocked” Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual and political leader, in the wake of invasion. Yet Mao got away with it, much like Stalin had gotten away with his construction of puppet regimes from the Baltic to the Adriatic after World...
...unsettling resemblance to nightmares.”In this faux-encyclopedic account of 30 fictional far-right writers and poets, Bolaño the bibliophilic wordsmith collides with Bolaño the one-time Chilean dissident. When his encyclopedist-narrator calls 1953 “the year in which Stalin and Dylan Thomas died,” he means it: political and cultural changes, for Bolaño, are not only of equal importance but inseparable, always moving hand-in-hand.“Nazi Literature,” originally published in 1996, is the book that first established Bola?...
...vote for Bush’s tax cuts and he supports “amnesty” for illegal immigrants. This led you to assert that Republicans may be better off voting for Clinton in the same way that Churchill was forced to ally himself with Stalin in order to fight Hitler...
...along with Diana's possessions after she died. He had decided not to mention that fact in the book because "I didn't feel I had to at the time." Things got ludicrous when Keen accused Burrell of rewriting history: "Isn't this the sort of thing that got Stalin into trouble?" (Burrell could only shake his head in disbelief, but anyone walking past the court annex would have heard roars of laughter coming from the journalists and inquest-watchers inside...