Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above all, our Russia covers constitute a gallery of dead men. Trotsky, who appeared three times, was killed in 1940 by the agents of Joseph Stalin, who in turn appeared eight times before he died in 1953. The ninth cover story offered this epitaph: "He might have boasted in the words of the Roman song honoring Emperor Aurelian...
Many other Russian cover subjects were liquidated, physically or politically-Beria, Bulganin, Malenkov, Molotov-after the emergence of Nikita Khrushchev. He made his first appearance on TIME'S cover a few months after Stalin's death, as head of the Economic Reform Program, again-and still-struggling with the perennially sagging Soviet economy. Soviet Russia is always ready to create heroes, as in the case of the cosmonauts, and always ready to forget them-if not physically remove them from their tombs. One of TIME'S Russia covers presented famed Shock Worker Alexis Stakhanov...
Clearly, though, Russia is no longer the passive pastoral society that quivered before Stalin. The Kremlin will increasingly feel the pressures of an urban culture that is no longer resigned to an indefinitely receding Utopia. Communism's Kafka-and-abacus stage is already being overtaken by its Pasternak-and-hi-fi era. Affluent Communists might not be any easier to live with. But they would certainly have more to live...
...which Russia's rising generation hopes finally to achieve Karl Marx's vision of "abundance in our days." As Nikita Khrushchev proclaimed last month: "If a man has one suit, God help him to have two, and then three!" If most Russians had one suit in Stalin's time, it was under Khrushchev that they got Suit No. 2. The third will come along any decade...
Djilas, Milovan Conversations with Stalin. (Harcourt, Brace & World...