Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confused with Titoism, which was an uncontrollable revolt). Within Russia the Kremlin has reduced the work week from 48 to 46 hours, released thousands of political prisoners from internment, raised pensions for the aged and disabled, and sought to modify some of the strains of the Stalin era. Since this is good business for the Communist leaders, who hope to get more productivity out of the beneficiaries, the West has found such gestures awkward to reply to. Russia skillfully seeks to magnify every concession; the West instinctively tries to minimize them...
...church behind them; signs on church doors warn: "Remember you are apostate and excommunicated if you vote for the Communists." But in a land where many of the people are at once Roman Catholic and anticlerical, the Vatican is being discreet. Communists are embarrassed by the dethroning of Stalin, but Communism's fellow-traveling allies, the Socialists of Pietro Nenni, are expected to do well. Four crucial races...
...order is to snap yes or no. Fadeyev himself lived this kind of life as a Soviet guerrilla during the civil war, and he believed that if it was not yes it must be no. Later, when it became his job to ride herd on Soviet literature for Dictator Stalin, tough Fadeyev made many an author bite the Siberian...
After three years in a slave-labor camp in Siberia, he was released when Stalin died. He fled to the West and came to this country on the Conant Scholarship. Bachmannn plans another television tour sometime after exams...
Perhaps the current American reaction of automatic skepticism towards everything that Russia does or says or promises is a natural after-effect of the Great Awakening, the days when the U.S. first recognized the meaning behind Stalin's smiles. From an unjustified good faith in Russia's intentions, America leaped into fear and a deep contempt for the new Enemy, instead of assuming a proper attitude of caution and watchful reserve. As a result, the official American response to Soviet peace antics has been reflexive denouncement and obvious bad faith...