Word: stalinization
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...presumed Chernenko was ill, but who knew how ill? They don't give health bulletins here, you know. This isn't America; we feed on news from the grapevine. So it was a surprise to hear he had actually died. Still, things haven't changed much since the Stalin days. Ever since, we have had a more or less collectivized government leadership, and things seem to jog along comfortably enough. Who expects changes? And what kind of changes? By and large, one leader is much the same as another...
...theory, the conceptual breakthrough has been restricted to the economy; in practice, it has begun to affect other areas of national life. Not just Marx but Lenin and Stalin too, China's dialecticians are now saying, could not possibly have foreseen today's global and national realities. Their theories, it is argued, should thus no longer be treated as sacred truth...
...intent of the book is clear throughout it charts the submergence of the long cherished communist goal of world revolution into the much of Soviet internal affairs under Stalin According to Carr, the original plan for the defense of a fledgling Spanish socialist government against the rebel Fascists and the advancement of the communist movement there was scrapped in the name of political expediency. As Carr puts it in his conclusion, the "united front," which joined Spanish socialists and communists under Moscow's guidance, gave was to a "popular front," with which the Spanish left was ordered to embrace...
Because of Stalin's desire to attain a rapprochement with the West as the spectre of German and Italian militarism grew large the Spanish government became expendable Carr quotes a Soviet intelligence officer's account of a split in the Comintern between those that feared to provoke the animosity of France (these included Stalin), and those who felt that there was no moral choice but to come to the defense of the Republic These last Stalin branded as Protskyites...
Soon enough, the front began to disintegrate. Charges were made of unfair distribution of arms which short changed anarchist militia units. The Trotskyites and other groups opposed the conservative economic policies of the regime, and small military clashes were reported. As Stalin's purges got underway in the USSR, the Spanish government began to harass, threaten and even assassinate members of the left revolutionary groups...