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...united anti-fascist front. Batista, then in power, at American urging welcomed the legitimacy brought by collaboration with the popular PSP. This work-through-the-system strategy, however, meant an ideological retreat for the militants as they had to accept Batista's policy with little power to criticize. Stalin repudiated the PSP, because he rightly felt that this interpretation of the Comintern strategy led to dangerous revisionist theories which would de-emphasize class struggle. Having lost its main support from Russia, the PSP found itself compromised and isolated. Cold war anti-communism and attacks on trade unions, the radical stronghold...
Born. To Svetlana Alliluyeva Peters, 45, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, and William Wesley Peters, 58, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's longtime assistant and now vice president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation: a daughter; in San Rafael, Calif. Name: Olga. "This pretty girl makes another strong link between this country and myself," said Mrs. Peters, whose two grown children by previous marriages still live in the Soviet Union...
That was the role of Malcolm X, the black man in the white nightmare; Elie Wiesel, the ghost of Auschwitz; and, to an unmatched degree, of Nobel Prizewinner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, survivor and permanent victim of Stalin's prison camps. In 1962, during Khrushchev's brief destalinization period, readers were suddenly introduced to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In a dark, spartan account, it told of the wretches who peopled the slave labor camps of Siberia, cleaved from society for uncommitted political sins, filled with what the author called "the fearlessness of those who have lost...
Considering also Deutscher's studies of Russia, Horowitz shows that the intervention did not stop the revolution itself but did succeed in freezing European revolt. The consequences rebounded back to Russia provoking Stalin's theory of "socialism in one country." In effect, Russia had to rethink completely the role of its revolution: Russia would have to stand alone despite Lenin and Trotsky's earlier admonition against such prospects. Above all, the Russian Revolution succeeded in turning the focus of revolution from industrialized Europe to the third world: the center of imperialism...
...Administration also got an unexpected assist from, of all people, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who gave a speech at Tiflis, in Stalin's Georgia homeland, recommending that the Soviets and the NATO powers start talking about mutual troop reductions in central Europe. Brezhnev challenged the U.S. to get serious about the subject. He asked rhetorically: "Don't these curious people resemble a person who tries to judge the flavor of a wine without imbibing...