Word: stalinization
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...discussing Lenin's body." Yet the debate also is a window on changing attitudes among the ruling élite. Since Putin came to power, a new ideology has been taking shape that blends imperial nostalgia with the occasional careful nod to the Soviet Union's greatness under Stalin. These days the Kremlin honor guard wears 1812-era uniforms, and attending Orthodox church services is a good career move. Even the Stalin-era national anthem is back. Lenin, a ruthless but austere revolutionary, an enemy of empires and religion, is out of fashion. Denouncing him allows members...
...labor camp. Mikhalkov's father Sergei established the family fortune by writing chilling verse about enemies of the people at the height of the Stalinist purges. And he composed the words to his country's national anthem--three times. In 1944 he hailed the "Great Lenin" and Stalin. In 1977 he wrote out Stalin. And in 2000, when Putin revived the anthem, Sergei Mikhalkov replaced Lenin with fields and forests...
...clan, close to nature though not entirely removed from civilization. "We were tolerant, or perhaps merely eclectic," she says. "You cannot live at the crossroads of the caravans without absorbing the way of thinking of all those who have been there before you." That tolerance is gravely strained by Stalin, who is trying to force the Tunshan and other Central Asian tribes into collective farms - and, as World War II erupts, into the Red Army. Kaja's charismatic father Ul'an decides to fight for his people's freedom by joining the invading German forces. He befriends a scholarly Wehrmacht...
...late father removed the ax from an evidence room for safekeeping, and Esteban Volkov, Trotsky's grandson, who wants it donated to his museum at Trotsky's former home. Trotsky, a leader of the 1917 Russian revolution, had fled the Soviet Union in 1937 after differences with Josef Stalin. He was murdered in Mexico City three years later, allegedly by one of Stalin's henchmen...
...them is the 3-m-tall Tower of Babel (1989), slung with flywheels that bring to life scores of tiny wooden figures that frantically turn handles, ring bells or pull each other's strings. From a high pulpit, a tiny Vladimir Lenin urges them on; below, a uniformed Joseph Stalin wields a bloody...