Word: stalinize
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...than those folks distracted by sibling rivalries. The compendium is impressive. Among the artists and poets, actors and statesmen, comics and scientists who were only children: Ann-Margret, Ansel Adams, Hannah Arendt, Charles Baudelaire, Willy Brandt, Arthur Burns, Richard Daley, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, Richard Pryor, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Renata Tebaldi, Queen Victoria, Mary Wells, Jonathan Winters, Edmund Wilson. The trouble is, one could easily draw up at least as impressive a litany of luminaries who had brothers and sisters. Let's see, there was Moses, Milton, Napoleon...
...Brezhnev, bordered by electric light bulbs; it showed the President waving in a pose made familiar by Bolshevism's chief founder, Vladimir Ilych Lenin. Earlier this year Moscow issued a postage stamp bearing Brezhnev's likeness, the first stamp to picture a living Soviet leader since Stalin. At a reception after the parade, Brezhnev, who will be 71 next month, sounded considerably more conciliatory than had Defense Minister Ustinov. Offering a toast "to lasting peace on earth," he promised to "do everything in our power to ease the threat of war, to strengthen peaceful cooperation among states...
...historians argue, plausibly enough, that Russia with its vast resources, would have developed just as impressively or better, under quite different management Nevertheless, the Russian Empire that the Bolsheviks inherited in 1917 was a fairly primitive vastness, although some industrialization had begun. Despite its bloody civil war (1918-22) Stalin's savage purges in the '30s and the devastations of World War II, the Soviet Union has risen to rival American influence around the world. Russia has become the planet's leading producer of crude oil, coal, steel, pig iron, locomotives mineral fertilizers and other products. Soviet...
Although it has become a mockery of its original promise, the Revolution is unlikely ever again to be as frightful as it was under Stalin, if only because the Russian people are so much better informed now and probably would not stand for such mass terror. Then, the poet Anna Akhmatova wrote: "The stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, be loved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." Life under Lenin's current successor has relaxed, grown somewhat less bleak, but there still seems no prospect that the mythology will...
...political activist of the far left, he spent three months in jail during 1950 for failing to comply with a House Un-American Activities Committee subpoena. He was a columnist for the Daily Worker, a 1952 American Labor Party candidate for Congress, a 1953 winner of a Stalin Peace Prize and the most popular American author in the U.S.S.R. "There is no nobler, no finer product of man's existence on this earth than the Communist Party," he said...