Word: stalinization
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...Viktor Grishin, 57, Moscow party chief; Dinmukhamed Kunayev, 59, Kazakhstan party chief; Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 53, chairman of the council of ministers of the Ukraine, and Fedor Kulakov, 53, a party secretary and specialist in agriculture. All are Brezhnev protégés. By packing the Politburo, just as Stalin did in 1952, Brezhnev henceforth will be able to dominate it more easily. The collective leadership, which last year had begun to show signs of strain, appeared to be yielding ground to Brezhnev's drive toward undisputed preeminence...
...they deserve, he said, is "general scorn." Without naming names, Brezhnev upbraided Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn for dwelling on "problems that have been irreversibly relegated to the past." Then, in an evenhanded manner, Brezhnev rapped ultraconservative Soviet writers who "attempt to whitewash the past" by praising Joseph Stalin. Among his other points...
Congresses have frequently served as watersheds in Soviet history. At the Tenth Congress in 1921, Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy, which for a time allowed the peasants to sell their produce on a free market. At the 15th, six years later, Stalin consolidated his hold on power by purging Leon Trotsky from the party. At the 20th in 1956, Nikita Khrushchev delivered the famed "secret speech" that started the wave of destalinization...
...Defense Minister. As a sign of Brezhnev's ascendancy, his was the only signature to appear on the draft of the new five-year plan (1971-75). It was the first time such a document was signed by a single person since 1952?when the sole signature was Joseph Stalin's. Still, Brezhnev is 64, overweight, and has had one heart attack...
Going Out. For the foreseeable future, East Europeans are likely to take either East Germany or Hungary as their economic model. In the long run, however, they cannot help being attracted by Yugoslavia. Originally, the country was a carbon copy of the Soviet system. Before the 1948 split with Stalin, Yugoslavia's central plan spelled out every conceivable detail from production quotas to retail prices; in print, the plan weighed 3,000 lbs. By 1950, President Josip Broz Tito recognized the inefficiency of total central control. Tito allowed workers to participate in running the factories. Elected workers' councils...