Word: stalinization
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...south of the Siberian border and named it after himself?Ulubulevskij Brewery. Japanese managers took over after Emperor Hirohito's forces conquered Manchuria, as that part of northeast China was known, and the company later fell into the hands of the Soviet Red Army. Only in the 1950s, after Stalin ordered the return of Chinese assets, did managers from the mainland take control; in the famine years that followed, they brewed the first Chinese beer from corn. These days the Harbin Brewery Group is a pioneer yet again. Having listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in June...
...most influential people of the 20th century, culminating in Albert Einstein as Person of the Century. I oversaw the first installment, Leaders and Revolutionaries, and I still remember the heated debates about whether we should pick Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan (the Gipper won out) and whether Joseph Stalin should join the list with Adolf Hitler (he didn't make...
...Fidelity's Abigail Johnson, whose family firm controls the destiny of nearly $900 billion of mutual-fund money. But Kim Jong Il, the Dear Leader of North Korea, has power too--nuclear-weapons programs do that for you--despite the fact that his nation is an economic basket case. Stalin asked mockingly about the Pope, "How many divisions does he have?" Yet few would doubt that Pope John Paul II has changed countless lives. So, sadly, has Osama bin Laden, even though he is holed up in a remote village somewhere in the Hindu Kush with even fewer divisions...
BOOKS: Portraits of Stalin and Joseph Califano...
...since last October on tax evasion and fraud charges, wrote an essay for a Moscow newspaper, apologizing for becoming rich instead of safeguarding liberal values, and praising President Vladimir Putin as "more liberal and democratic than 70% of our population." Yukos stock jumped on hopes the recant - reminiscent of Stalin-era confessions - might be part of a deal to free Khodorkovsky. Fat chance. Although authorities indicated they would allow Yukos to keep disputed Siberian licenses, the Prosecutor General posted charges against Khodorkovsky's associate Platon Lebedev on its website. "Khodorkovsky is deluding himself if he thinks he can mend fences...