Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since Stalin's death, Brzezinski says in his "The Permanent Purge" published today by the University Press, purges have hit the higher-ups of the Party rather than the mass membership. He believes conflicts have been confined largely to the upper strata of the Communist hierarchy...
Soviet leaders have openly admitted use of the purge for their own purposes, and Brzezinski quotes Stalin as having once said: "I believe that some time, from time to time, the master must without fall go through the ranks of the Party with a broom in his hand...
...Communist rivals. The present party was born in 1920, when Leon Blum rebelled against accepting direction from the Kremlin. By 1936 the Socialists had 149 seats in the Assembly, and Blum's Popular Front government ruled France with Communist support. The two parted angrily over the Hitler-Stalin pact, made up when Hitler's invasion of Russia made resistance fighters of them all, stayed uneasy friends until Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier threw the Communists out of his government...
...Moscow-trained Communists and helped to organize the "action committees" that bored into every section of Czech life. After the coup he returned to Moscow, but was back in Prague three years later to supervise the liquidation of Rudolf Slansky and a score of other top Czech Communists on Stalin's suspect list...
...sixth Five-Year Plan will be the subject of endless stakhanovite speech-making in coming months, but Russian workers may well recall an exhortation made by Stalin of an earlier piatiletka: "We are 50 to 100 years behind the advanced countries. We have to run this distance in ten years. Either we do this or we disintegrate." That was a quarter of a century ago. Even in the unlikely event of the targets being attained, the gross national product of the U.S.S.R. in 1960, experts calculate, will be only two-thirds that of the U.S. at the present moment...