Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's strange, sinister, grand-operatic allegory of the Stalin era (see below...
...greatest master of vast composition and dynamic form. In 1943, in the midst of World War II, he started work on a huge film chronicle of the reign of Ivan the Terrible. For Part 1, which was shown in the U.S. (TIME, April 14, 1947), Eisenstein won a Stalin Prize. But Part 2 displeased Stalin, and Eisenstein died before he could make the necessary changes. For the next ten years, Part 2 lay unseen in the Soviet Film Archive. In 1958, five years after Stalin's death, the film was at last released, and is now being seen...
...some historical ac counts, Ivan IV of Russia (1530-84) was a psychopathic sadist who slaughtered thousands of Russians, gleefully assisted at the torture of his enemies, and mur dered his own son in a blind rage. Eisen stein's Ivan is frankly intended to repre sent Stalin, who admired Ivan as the founder of the Russian state, and liked to think he was "terrible" only because he had to be. Eisenstein therefore dutifully whitewashes the brute. But the whitewash is spread so thin in some areas o>f Part 2 -in which Ivan's purge...