Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennan is a former Godkin lecturer. He last appeared at Harvard in April, 1960, to lecture on the Soviet Union under Stalin...
...loathe her is not clear. On a visit in 1954. she noted that "all is privilege in that country,'' and observed with an English country girl's disapproval a prevalence of goats, "sure sign of poverty and fecklessness." She generally avoided giving offense, and she found Stalin, who was safely dead, a "dear old soul...
...France and West Germany early this year, the dashing young poet was lionized at parties (including a masquerade ball during Munich's annual Carnival) by pleasure-loving bourgeois intellectuals. He even held a series of freewheeling press conferences. Heaping scorn on the party fossils whose hackwork wins the Stalin Prize each year, Evtushenko actually blamed Stalin's reign of terror on the dictator's "close associates"-of whom, though he did not say so, Nikita Khrushchev is the dean emeritus. The poet's most audacious gesture of independence was to give the editors of France...
Take Your Choice. To Russia's ruler, it had become all too clear that the recent flood of artistic expression-poetry readings before mass audiences, exhibits of modern paintings, jazz imported from abroad, books and articles about the Stalin terror-were becoming dangerous carriers of alien Western ideas, shaking the foundations of Communist society. Destalinization, touched off by Nikita Khrushchev himself at the 20th Party Congress in 1956, had gone...
...previous revolutionary phenomena in Soviet cultural life can also be understood as political creations. In the aftermath of Stalin's death Ilya Ehrenburg published a novel, The Thaw, which lent its name to a whole period of increased freedom of expression. An otherwise drab story, The Thaw did have some kind words for freedom of expression in art, and was quite a bold venture compared to the material produced during Stalin's last years. The story touched a pent-up longing for freedom that threatened to break forth; the regime quickly clamped down, issued a succession of reprimands to Ehrenburg...