Word: stalinized
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...seems like a typical commune, except that the farm hands are all from the city - 200 schoolteachers, office workers and party cadres who have gone off to the countryside for six months of consciousness raising, Chinese style. The encounter groups center about the works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Chairman...
...engineered Russia's first serious counterattack against the invading Nazis in 1941, three years later became the first Soviet army commander to penetrate German territory. Equally adept at political infighting, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev after the war and in 1953 presided over the tribunal that sentenced Stalin's Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Beria to death. Khrushchev appointed Konev commander of the Warsaw Pact armies, then, in 1961, shifted him to Berlin to take charge of Soviet forces during the building of the Berlin Wall...
Divorced. Svetlana Alliluyeva Peters, 47, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, who made headlines in 1967 by defecting to the U.S. and minor literary ripples with her memoirs of life with papa; and William Wesley Peters, 60, chief architect of the Wright Foundation and former husband of Frank Lloyd Wright's late daughter Svetlana; after three years of marriage, one child; in Phoenix, Ariz. Svetlana Alliluyeva married Peters after a three-week courtship, then left him because of her objections to life in the architecture community, Taliesin West...
...trouble with the film. Perhaps any dramatic version, no matter how well acted or researched, must end as an opera about an opera, Gödtterddmmerung at two removes. We know about the myth of Hitler. It has saturated our culture. Our stock image of murderous power is not Stalin quietly chewing a pipe, but Hitler noisily chewing a carpet. The details slip; not so many people nowadays know or care who Baldur von Schirach was or what the Roehm putsch signified. But the broad trajectory of Hitler's career, let alone its grisly climax in the bunker...
THURSDAY: Alexander Nevsky. (1938) Sergei Eisenstein's epic of 13th century warfare in Russia scarcely veils its gung-ho John Wayne-style plumping for Josef Stalin and his then-tough policy towards Hitler's Germany. CH.2...