Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Croatian hunting lodge at Belje. To the Chinese, who have long complained that Khrushchev has gone over to the enemy camp both ideologically and in his personal tastes, all this must have seemed infuriating - particularly since Host Tito is their ideological archenemy, the "revisionist" who first broke with Stalin and established a more or less independent brand of Marxism...
...soldier's return was chronicled in a subtle, stylish new poem by Tvardovsky that was spread across two pages of Izvestia under a warmly approving introduction by Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. In Stalin's day, for all his buffoonery, Terkin ultimately had to symbolize "the ideal Soviet soldier"; in his latest adventure, he is a cockily irreverent figure who gets killed in battle and goes to a "nether world" that turns out to be a sort of Stalinsville on the Styx...
...moral of Terkin's trip, Tvardovsky suggests, is that all Russians share the blame for Stalin because they resigned themselves to his excesses instead of resisting them. However, the poet also urges Russians to stop harping on Stalinism, which has been Khrushchev's line of late. Terkin's resurrection was a sign that Khrushchev had decided to soften a campaign against controversial writing that has been going on since December. In fact, Editor Adzhubei noted reassuringly, Nikita liked the poem and laughed loudly when it was read to him before publication...
...career was off again. After goodbyes to such friends as McGeorge Bundy, Averell Harriman and President Kennedy, the noted Kremlinologist was off to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. Kennan is wavering between doing a book on Soviet foreign policy during the last years of the Stalin era or chucking contemporary punditry to "become a real historian and go way back into the 19th century...
...once literary secretary to Sinclair Lewis. Edward Albee has adapted The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques (Oct. 30). Paddy Chayefsky, shrewdly going for new ground every time out, has written The Passion of Josef D., a view of Joseph Stalin from 1917 to 1924, from the Revolution to the death of Lenin...