Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conclusion of the Second World War, Mike returned to Moscow, where he boasts, "I was one of the members of the Cabinet under Stalin for three years." It is with no small amount of pride that he recalls his meetings two or three times a week with Stalin. "Occasionally," he adds with a wry smile, "we used to meet more often, just to talk...
...used to be said of Red China that it was repeating, stage by stage, Russia's Communist development a third of a century later. But the evidence coming out of China is that Mao Tse-tung is engaged in a more drastic experiment than Stalin or Khrushchev ever tried. The official name for it is "the people's communes" movement...
...establishment of the far milder cooperative farms met with considerable opposition among Red China's peasants. In Kwangtung province alone 118.000 peasants and their families deserted cooperative farms in 1956. Peking itself admits that the establishment of the communes has produced "vacillation" among the "upper-middle peasants." Stalin's forced collectivization of Russian agriculture in the 19305-3 program less radical than the establishment of the Chinese communes-was achieved only at the cost of more than 10 million Russian lives. Whether Mao can succeed without resistance on a similar scale in China remains to be seen...
...central character of Playhouse go's opening show last month (TIME, Sept. 29) was a polished, elderly tyrant named Joseph Stalin, who lived in a palace called the Kremlin. His courtiers-named Beria, Malenkov, Molotov and Khrushchev-hated Stalin and hungered for his power. Together they plotted his death, and it turned out to be an easier job than they had supposed. Stalin suffered a stroke, and, as the CBS camera dollied in for the climactic closeup, Khrushchev dramatically refused...
Moscow really had little to complain about. Worse charges than a simple little murder have been brought against Russia's masters, and, as acted by old Matinee Idol Melvyn Douglas, Stalin nearly emerged as a grand old man. But New York Times Critic Jack Gould thought the cloak-and-daggerotype-which mixed painstaking research with fantastic guesswork-an insult to a government "with which this country maintains formal, if very strained, diplomatic relations." The Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. agreed. "Smiling Mike" Menshikov called the play "a filthy slander against the Soviet Union . . . incompatible with international standards." With that...