Word: stalinize
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...announcement came, fittingly enough, from Brezhnev himself, who after 16 years at the helm has proved to be the most durable Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Addressing 1,500 delegates to the biannual session of the Supreme Soviet in the Kremlin, Brezhnev announced that Kosygin, 76, was stepping down "on the grounds of his health, which has recently worsened." To replace him as Prime Minister, Brezhnev formally nominated Kosygin's longtime deputy, Nikolai Tikhonov, 75. The parliament's approval, with a unanimous show of hands, came automatically. Kosygin and former President Anastas Mikoyan are the only top Kremlin...
...WAKE UP SCREAMING 1) Vissarionovich. A zany new musical based on the life of Joseph Stalin. Starring Joel Grey. Choreographed by Bob Fosse. "A gem"-New York Post...
...Although Stalin's regime banned the work in the Soviet Union because it treated Lenin and Trotsky as heroes and mentioned Stalin only once, Reed remained popular in the U.S., he added...
...promoted to something of a cultural hero. That elevation was not so odd as it first appeared. Soviet espionage, after all, was no fiction: wartime thieves of atomic secrets had been tried and convicted in federal courts. Nor was the Gulag a fantasy; as early as the '30s Stalin's murderous intent had been revealed. The "Red Menace" has been revised downward many times, but a generation ago there were many non-hysterical, unxenophobic Americans who found Communist rhetoric and performance to be morally squalid, and who deserved better than the work of self-aggrandizing Congressmen and sycophantic...
...also quite distressing in its naivete. One need only consider the historical sickness of the Klan to condemn its present actions and philosophy. In the same way, the RCP may be judged by the actions of past adherents of its ideology. McKibben noted the volumes by Lenin and Stalin in the RCP offices. Although promoting an "altruistic" philosophy, these men caused far more death, persecution, and agony than the Klan ever will...