Word: stalinized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many of those who watched the week unfold in Moscow concluded that this summit-the most important since Potsdam in 1945 and probably the most important Soviet political event since Stalin's death-could change world diplomacy. It was all the more impressive because it seemed not so much a single, cataclysmic event but part of a process, part of a world on the move...
...They have made use of Western technology before. Joseph Stalin's first Five-Year Plan, which began in 1928 and aimed at the industrialization of Russia, depended heavily on both Western equpiment and experts. By 1931, more than 1,000 U.S. technicians and engineers were employed in the Soviet Union: Henry Ford built a factory in Russia that was capable of turning out 100,000 vehicles a year, including Model A Fords...
...Brezhnev formally joined the Communist Party and spent much of the next four years doing part-time studies in metallurgical engineering. Then came Stalin's great purge, which swept hundreds of thousands of loyal Communists into prison. Brezhnev was too insignificant a party member to be among the victims. But the terror left a vacuum in the party leadership that helped Brezhnev-like his colleague Premier Aleksei Kosygin-achieve a position of influence quite out of proportion to his age and experience. In 1939, at the age of 33, he became a party leader of a major industrial region...
Moldavian party he completed the collectivization of peasants formerly under Rumanian rule. In 1952 his success in carrying out such unglamorous tasks bore fruit. Brezhnev finally broke into the Kremlin establishment as an alternate member of the Presidium (now the Politburo) under Stalin and as a Secretary of the Central Committee...
Died. Alexander Korneichuk, 66, playwright-politician who became one of the Soviet Union's most prominent literary loyalists; in Kiev. Because of his skill in blending party line with plot, Korneichuk won five Stalin Prizes and a number of political appointments during the 1930s and '40s. After Stalin's death, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev and in 1955 attacked the fallen secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, in a play called Wings. It marked the start of Khrushchev's public assault on Stalinism. Korneichuk also survived Khrushchev's ouster, serving the present regime...