Word: stalinization
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What is Tito really up to? It is scarcely remembered now that at the time of his split with Stalin, Tito (now 80) was already an oldfashioned, authoritarian Communist in the Moscow mold. He began to pull Yugoslavia away from the Soviet model partly for economic reasons. While Moscow was wreaking its vengeance on Belgrade with a trade-crippling boycott, Tito discovered that the liberal reforms persuasively advocated by his brilliant lieutenant Milovan Djilas were not only popular inside Yugoslavia but also attracted badly needed sympathy-and aid-from the West...
...Moscow. A quiet, portly intellectual, Tupolev predicted in 1922 that aviation's future lay in all-metal planes, then began designing almost one a year. Despite his productivity and a long list of aviation records, his defense of a friend during purges of the 1930s earned him Stalin's wrath-and a five-year stay in prison. Released during World War II, Tupolev achieved one of his greatest technical triumphs when he copied the design of a grounded U.S. B-29 and put a Soviet version into production within a year. Tupolev remained active until...
...Soviet citizens, his biggest news was that a new constitution will be unveiled at the next party congress, scheduled for 1976. A new charter was necessary, Brezhnev said, to take account of "fundamental changes in Soviet society and the world" since the existing constitution was formulated under Stalin in 1936. Brezhnev added that the new constitution would be submitted to a national referendum. In Soviet political lexicon, that does not mean a mass, single-issue vote but usually a few months of grass-roots discussion, which can be interpreted any way the party desires...
...Soviets are leading the way, with a drive on personal freedoms and intellectual life that is fast approaching Stalin-era dimensions. While continuing its running duel with individual dissidents (see following story), Moscow has cut back on all sorts of civil and cultural liberties, and there are fewer showings of Western plays like My Fair Lady. Producers must stage works that celebrate such things as Soviet espionage and the victories of World War II. Mail censorship has been tightened; library privileges are harder to obtain. One new decree prohibits use of a telephone "against state interests." Another, issued...
...tente from penetrating Soviet borders. Since Richard Nixon's visit to Moscow last May, the screws have been clamped ever tighter on expressions of dissent in Russia. Now some Western observers think that the Soviets are poised on the brink of the most massive crackdown since Stalin's death...