Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nikita Khrushchev, no more than Stalin, can dictate who shall succeed him once he is dead. But as of now, and if the choice is his, Nikita Khrushchev would choose Polyansky...
...second book is already familiar to Cambridge, for it is nearly a verbatim record of lectures gives here last spring on "Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin Era." These lectures covered the broad range of Soviet policy between...
Kennan is highly critical of Stalin's foreign policy, and insists that many Soviet moves were due to the director's fears for his personal power. He cites the Communists' failure in China in 1927 and the withdrawal of aid from the Spanish Republican forces in 1936 as examples. At times, however, he may be exaggerrating the significance of the peculiarities of Stalin's personality...
...Russian future, in Kennan's view: "People who have only enemies don't know what complications are; for that, you have to have friends; and these the Soviet government, thank God, now has." Kennan hopefully thinks that, as a modern reincarnation of the murderous Ivan the Terrible, Stalin may have immunized the Soviet state against Stalinism. He believes that Khrushchev is the effect, and not the cause, of "the thaw...
...still most dedicated to Castro's cause, and though President López Mateos, a middle-of-the-roader, might have reservations, he is held back by the re-emergence of Mexico's most powerful politico, former President Lázaro Cárdenas, 65, now a Stalin Prize-winning fellow traveler, who is whipping up pro-Castro demonstrations...