Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The final volume of an excellent biographical trilogy on Trotsky, in which Stalin is shown using the immense apparatus of international Communism to stalk his old rival from country to country, to murder his sons, and finally to strike down the tough old man himself...
Mail-Order History. Between World Wars, Collector Vincent recorded everyone from Lenin to Stalin to Wilson to F.D.R. He developed the famous wartime V-disc for G.I.s to "write" home, set up the multilingual sound systems at the Nuremburg trials and the U.N. Out of all this came a memorable 1950 record, Hark! The Years, narrated by Fredric March, which has been a collector's item selling for as much as $75. Happily, the Michigan State audiovisual center has just reissued...
...front of a statue. He asked me if I'd read much Russian history and I said no. "No? That's too bad. If you knew more about our history before the Revolution, you might forgive us for some of the things that have happened since then. The Stalin time--that's what we all ask about now: Why did it happen? How could it happen? Stalin himself was not the only cause. The people believed him; they did what he told them to because they were used to it. They always had someone tell them 'do this,' 'do that...
...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. These two short novels by the author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch concern outsiders in post-Stalin society: an earnest young man who believes Lenin to the letter, and an ancient, impoverished peasant woman...
Inexorably, Stalin closed in. He embarked on a policy of worldwide assassination of Trotskyites. One of Trotsky's sons was executed in Russia; the other was poisoned in a hospital in France, where he had been taken for an appendectomy. Had Trotsky stopped his attacks on Stalin, had he gone into hiding as his friends urged, he might have survived or at least lived longer. But he refused to knuckle under. "I will endure this hell-black night to the end," he said. One night a gang of Stalinists, led by the Mexican artist Siqueiros, broke into Trotsky...