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...includes evidence of pre-1948 Communist conspiracies, plus 30 years of secret documentation from the archives of the Czechoslovak Politburo, the party central committee, the state planning commission, the trade unions and the secret police. Kaplan also had access to memorandums detailing Prague party leaders' discussions with Joseph Stalin and the Czechoslovak party's instructions from Moscow, notably in connection with the celebrated 1952 show trial of Party Chief Rudolf Slansky and other high-level officials. Among the items in Kaplan's cache, according to Kaplan...
...predecessors all had indelible lessons. Harry Truman, recalls Clark Clifford, his principal aide, spent his first year believing that Uncle Joe Stalin might be a lot like other tough politicians whom Truman had known. He waited for the Russians to act fairly and responsibly (as viewed from the U.S.) in the postwar world. Then one day Harry decided he had waited long enough. He climbed into his limousine and went to the Hill and declared the Truman Doctrine to help the weak nations resist the Communists...
Official Thaw. It is a moment of some importance, for it signals an official thaw in Soviet attitudes to the cultural avant-garde of the past. Before Lenin died and the hand of Stalin squashed experimental art like a bug, the link between "revolutionary" art and revolutionary politics in Russia was closer than it has ever been in the West. The idealist abstract order of works like Lissitzky's Proun, 1919, was deeply connected to social visions of Utopia: when Tallin designed his extraordinary spiral tower as a monument of the revolulion, there was no doubt in his mind...
...public exposure and attack would be most unfair to Garbo because she is not Chinese. The same was true for Chaplin, almost all of whose films she saw in the 1930s. Modern Times she recognized as a diatribe against dictatorship. Others of his films seemed to be pitched against Stalin and, most powerfully, against Hitler, which makes them "progressive." It is all right to screen these films "among ourselves" (the leaders), who decide on their strong and weak points. But those private showings cannot be publicized...
...daughter was still tiny-were sent by the Party to Moscow. Depressed in her isolation, she resumed beating her children mercilessly. Eventually she gave up trying to mother them at all. Others took custody and she was committed to an asylum. In the late 1940's (when Stalin was becoming increasingly disenchanted with Mao) she was sent back to Shanghai. Aged now, she still lives there in a mental institution. Periodically she is given shock treatments...