Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND, by Svetlana Alliluyeva. Stalin's daughter shines a beam of light into dark Kremlin corners as she tells how her friends and family were scythed by purges...
...Soldiers seems to be an equally callous caricature. According to the play, Britain's wartime Prime Minister (played by Otto Hasse) was a tragic figure who authorized immoral acts in hopes of saving his nation. Among them was the murder of Sikorski, a stiff-necked patriot who infuriated Stalin first by demanding the postwar return of Polish territories annexed by Russia, then by calling for an investigation of the Katyn massacre of 4,253 Polish military prisoners. Fearful that Stalin was ready to break off relations with Britain, Churchill, alleges Hochhuth, authorized intelligence agents to arrange a fatal accident...
TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND, by Svetlana Alliluyeva. The dark but often poignant revelations of Stalin's daughter about life with father...
TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND, by Svetlana Alliluyeva. The dark and poignant revelations of Stalin's daughter about life with father...
...neutrality of Sweden in war is much simpler to comprehend than the delicate balancing act that it practices in world literature. The Swedish Academy hands out the Nobel Prize with a fine impartiality. This year a Frenchman, another time a German. Now a Russian of whom even Stalin could approve, then a Russian who cannot even show up to accept the award. And there are the obscure choices-the Icelandic novelist or the Italian poet, each known to only a handful even in his own country...