Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened, Khrushchev and his policies were in jeopardy. His denunciation of Stalin and his proclaimed "separate roads to socialism" had resulted in rebellion in Hungary, defiance in Poland and denunciation by the world. The restless spirit of dissent seethed in Rumania, in East Germany, even in docile Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. In France and Italy, in every Western country, the Communist parties were in turmoil; everywhere veteran comrades were resigning in outrage over his brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolt. At the December 1956 Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in Moscow, he was conspicuously not one of the speakers...
Pigs & Sandhogs. Few would have picked Khrushchev as Joseph Stalin's heir. This was the muzhik from Kalinovka whom Stalin commanded to dance the gopak, the hayseed at whom Beria sneered years ago as "our beloved chicken statesman," "our potato politician." When Stalin put Nikita in charge of the Moscow party back in the '30s, Khrushchev used to don navvies' rough clothes, crawl down to visit the sandhogs tunneling out the new subway, take a hand with a pneumatic drill, and talk with the lads in the unprintable language for which, even in the Kremlin, he is famous. The palace...
...Year, young Charles Lindbergh, soloed across the Atlantic sky and opened the Air Age. Lindbergh's profile was followed by a gallery of men and women who somehow shaped the news for better or worse. Included were Franklin Roosevelt, Walter P. Chrysler, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and General Eisenhower...
...years he sheltered his friende Trotsky from Stalin's international assassins. After Trotsky was killed, Rivera explained away his own attacks on Stalin as "just a trick to mislead the stockholders of Bethlehem Steel." He made a trip to Moscow two years ago for a cure for cancer, came back to report that "throughout Russia there are no secrets, no censorship restrictions. Every single person in Russia has television...
...Communist beast is obviously still news to ex-Party Member Fast. The rank and file, he continues to insist, were "the bravest and the best." The betrayers of the socialist dreams were the leaders, who rule by terror and, above all, by "magic." The onetime holder (1953) of the Stalin Peace Prize tries to explain and expose that evil Red magic; he sees Big Brother's ultimate depredations in the destruction of conscience ("The very nature of right and wrong has changed"). Considering Author Fast's onetime reputation, the book will take its minor place in the long...