Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sprawling Calcutta University Statistical Institute. Cambridge-trained Professor Mahalanobis, a physicist turned economist, has achieved a sensational rise in prestige, stands as close to Nehru on economic matters as Krishna Menon does on foreign affairs. Mahalanobis has stocked the institute's library with the works of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung and the proceedings of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, bound in calf. To help draft the plan, Mahalanobis got the services of ten Soviet economists to assist his staff. Mahalanobis has been called a Communist but denies it in hurt tones. "I have been only twice to Moscow...
...could an old hand like Ehrenburg, who got a remarkable fan letter on the occasion of an earlier book ("I have enjoyed your novel very much.-J Stalin."), commit such a mistake? Well since Fan Stalin died, the word had got around somehow that it was all right to have novels with people in them again-just like Tolstoy. The New Neanderthalers in The Thaw-bureaucrats, engineers, state artists-are not exactly people, but sometimes Author Ehrenburg lets them wonder in a dull-witted way why they are not. Perhaps the Ice Age of Communism might some day thaw. Savchenko...
...exchange for ending the state of war and establishing diplomatic relations. Also, he hinted, the Soviet Union might throw in two tiny islands north of Hokkaido that Russia has held since the end of World War II-but not the Kurils and southern Sakhalin, awarded to Stalin by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Yalta...
TIME was when the Kremlin was as inscrutable as Joseph Stalin's stony face, when analysts, trying to divine just what the latest Soviet pronouncement meant, rummaged back through 30 years of dusty files to find the significant quotation from Lenin. Now all is changed. Nikita Khrushchev, at the drop of a vodka glass, delivers himself of earthy opinions on anything from foreign affairs to women's clothes. Recent blurts...
Peering through the bars at Author Hodgkinson's caged semantic monsters, the reader will find such strange animals as the Marxist breed of equality (ravenstvo). "'By equality Marxism means, not equalization of individual requirements and individual life, but the abolition of classes,' said Stalin to the 17th Party Congress (1934)." And so on for a page of valuable documentation of George Orwell's porcine commissar whose classic formula was: "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." Similarly, Author Hodgkinson has fun with the word peace (mir) and the bellicose roarings...