Word: stalinization
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...different interpretations of Eastern European reform suggests, the far left in the U.S. is deeply divided over Marxist theory. Some embrace Josef Stalin, others Leon Trotsky. One group rejects both and says only Lenin correctly interpreted Marx...
...Moscow last week was go to Novodevichy Cemetery. "To make my tears for my dearest friends," as he told one interviewer. The great cellist laid flowers on the grave of Dmitri Shostakovich, who once taught him composition (Rostropovich quit the Moscow Conservatory when Shostakovich was dismissed for having offended Stalin's sensibilities). He laid more at the graves of Sergei Prokofiev, David Oistrakh and Emil Gilels. The next day, at another cemetery, he paid his respects to his mother Sofia and to Andrei Sakharov, whom he called "the greatest man of the 20th century...
...arms to begin. He had chosen a program full of sad messages: first Samuel Barber's elegiac Adagio for Strings; then Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony, which Rostropovich had performed at his last Moscow concert 16 years ago; then Shostakovich's anguished Fifth Symphony, written at the height of Stalin's purges in 1937. (In three subsequent concerts, two of them in Leningrad, Rostropovich would also perform the Prokofiev Fifth Symphony, the Dvorak Cello Concerto and Stephen Albert's Rivering Waters...
...World War II reflected national greatness of a traditional kind: economic and military strength and courage. The Marshall Plan reflected national greatness of an especially American kind: generosity and far-sighted promotion of our own values. To be sure, generosity was not all of it. We feared that Stalin would be the "receiver in bankruptcy" of an impoverished Europe, as TIME wrote the week the plan was announced. That fear may be gone. But it is not the end of history. Because of what could still go wrong in Eastern Europe, and to set an example for the rest...
...organization was founded in 1926 to study the gray matter of Lenin, and according to director Oleg Adrianov, it has since probed "many, many tens of brains," including those of Joseph Stalin and writer Maxim Gorky. The results of specific studies are classified...