Word: stalinization
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...screen, perhaps a fourth of the audience, gathered in Moscow last week for the first public showing of the 3½-hour feature film Osvobozhdeniye (Liberation), broke into spontaneous applause. Others remained coldly silent. At least one recalled aloud the suffering that had been caused by losif Vissarionovich Stalin...
Brutal Fist. Gradually, but ever more noticeably, the image of the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union for nearly 40 years is enjoying a public refurbishing. Russia's public celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany accentuated the trend. Stalin's name has appeared frequently and admiringly in a torrent of war memoirs and newspaper articles. The first bust of him to be seen in Moscow since 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev launched the destalinization spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone...
...control of Eastern Europe and open cooperation and aid to capitalist and even feudalism governments abroad) have their roots in the party dictatorship which took hold in Russia as the Civil War drew to a close and to see them as having emerged all of sudden in 1953 as Stalin's body was cooling is an absurd travesty of historical fact...
Kazin is flatly wrong when he implies that my view of the Russian situation is one of emergent social and political problems on the heels of Stalin's death. I do not dispute that the creation and development of top-heavy Soviet Party machinery occurred under Salin's auspices. And I agree that Stalin's posture toward revolutionary movements in Spain and in China was cruel, self-interested, and entirely despicable...
What I intended to point out is that Stalinism-or at least that aspect of institutional Stalinism which remains distinct from the personality of the man himself-cannot be divorced from its historical context. Suppression of the Kronstad? revolt followed an invasion of the Soviet Union by 14 nations. In view of Russia's own starvation and impoverishment, the need for the Soviet Communists to treat international revolution in terms of the national interest" became a great deal more urgent. And the remarkable threats which Japan and the Nazis posed to Soviet national security-in combination with Stalin...