Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unique Endowment. That science has become the balance point between Communism and the rest of the world is no surprise to the Communists. Said Stalin in 1931: "The history of old Russia is the history of defeats due to backwardness ... In ten years at most we must cover the distance which separates us from the advanced countries of capitalism . . . Look into everything, let nothing escape you, learn and learn more . . . We must study technology, master science." Today Russia graduates more than twice as many scientists and engineers per year as the U.S. So sophisticated was the approach of Communist bosses...
...fainter and fainter. No one seemed to be in any hurry to find a job for Russia's greatest living soldier, and by week's end Pravda was devoting only half a page to denunciations of the marshal's sins. Four and a half years after Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev stood alone and unchallenged...
...virgin lands" program that Khrushchev had rammed through almost singlehanded. From the far-off industrial zones around Irkutsk and Alma-Ata came reports that Khrushchev's decentralization of industry (TIME, April 15) had created such confusion that some factories had shut down completely for want of supplies. Stalin had committed far worse blunders and survived. But Khrushchev, as yet, was no Stalin. Where Stalin, because of his absolute command of the secret police, was able to rule through terror, Khrushchev still depends on the support of the Communist Party. To retain his power, Khrushchev must still cultivate the good...
...Soviet nation has been waging its campaign, Bergson said, while still maintaining the large degree of the economic independence nurtured by Stalin. The entire Soviet bloc, including Communist China, carries on only three percent of the world's trade outside the Soviet orbit...
...Central Committee itself, reported Pravda, many of Zhukov's oldest and closest military comrades-among them Marshals Timoshenko, Rokossovsky and Sokolovsky-"pointed out the serious shortcomings of Zhukov's work . . . unanimously condemned his wrong, unpartylike behavior." Marshal Ivan Konev suddenly discovered that Zhukov shared the blame with Stalin for Soviet reverses early in World War II, did not deserve much credit for the Stalingrad victory, had hindered more than helped at the conquest of Berlin. All in all, Konev concluded, "it would be absurd to affirm Zhukov's alleged exceptional part in the Great Patriotic...