Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cardinal Sins. But while heaping reward after reward upon the scientist, Stalin increasingly demanded servility. In the '30s, the party waged war on "academic individualism," and in the great purge of 1936-38, nearly half of the academy's party members were either shot or shipped to forced-labor camps. Cosmopolitanism (the idea that science could be foreign or Jewish), objectivism (the refusal to interpret new research in the light of Marxism), and idealism (a catch-all indictment) became the cardinal sins. The era of "fatherland science" had begun. By official decree, Russia claimed so many retroactive scientific...
...years after Stalin's death, at a scientific summit conference in Geneva in 1955, that Westerners first realized that a great change had come over their Soviet colleagues. At previous conferences, the Russians spoke only Russian, kept to themselves, and if asked a specific question, were apt to feign ignorance. But at Geneva, they were magpie-ready to talk. Aerodynamic Expert Gunther Bock, one of the German scientists taken to Russia after the war, went home to report that "in branches of science where Marxism-Leninism is not directly applicable, there is no feeling of oppression. I could discuss...
...length and breadth of China." But Author de Beauvoir seems to have got around on her own a good deal and to have seen a nation that, if her account could be credited, would seem to be by far the happiest and justest known to man since Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union. Items...
...that Fast can once again freely practice his profession. It is saddening that this new freedom of his comes not from any renewed belief among Americans in the right to the pursuit of happiness, but as a by-product of Fast's revulsion after Khrushchev's anti-Stalin speech...
...sanction of the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party in closed session. Nilde Jotti became known everywhere, even in the pages of the party newspaper L'Unita, as "la Compagna" (the companion) of Togliatti. She traveled with Togliatti to Russia as his "secretary" while Stalin was alive. After Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov publicly referred to her as Togliatti's "companion," and Anastas Mikoyan even introduced her as "Mrs. Togliatti...