Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Valentine's Day 1950, as Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung sealed a treaty of "friendship, alliance and mutual security," Comrade Mao predicted that this union of 700 million people would "inevitably influence the future of all mankind." This week the tenth anniversary of that historic union was observed with determined gaiety in Peking with lectures, parades and folklore festivals. Soviet Boss Khrushchev was too busy to take part personally in these solemnities. China's No. 1 ally was, ironically enough, off in India building friendship with China's No. 1 rival for Asian leadership...
...Rescue. Mao, after Stalin's death, fancied himself the senior philosopher of Communism, a man who had made his own revolution instead of merely inheriting it. At first Mao often intervened grandly in Communist Europe-at one point to back the Poles against Kremlin pressures, later to help Khrushchev when his authority tottered after the Hungarian revolt, and finally to lead the 1958 outcry against Tito's deviation from the true faith. But as the Sino-Soviet pact became ten years old, it was Johnny-Come-Lately Nikita Khrushchev who had to go to China's rescue...
...meets tractor. Boy loses tractor. Boy gets tractor. Such was the dreary, propagandists plot of most movies made in Stalin's Russia. Enter Comrade Khrushchev, followed by a babble of rumors that tractors were out, humanity was in, and a new generation of genius was about to restore the prestige enjoyed in the '20s by the Communist cinema. Last week, thanks to the recent U.S. -Soviet film-exchange agreement, two of the new Russian films could be seen in the U.S. Genius was not in evidence, but then neither were the tractors...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The second installment of the late Sergei Eisenstein's lugubrious but magnificent film chronicle of the reign of the Russian Czar bears little resemblance to the historical figure, is frankly (and cunningly) intended to represent Stalin...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's contrived but lush portrait of a power-mad paranoiac, made while Stalin was still alive but only recently released by the Russian government...