Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor Faubus should be nominated for the Stalin Medal or its present-day counterpart for his contribution to the cause of Communist propaganda...
...basic difficulty is that Nikita Khrushchev, a man reaching the top at 63 (Stalin was 47 when he got there), is trying to do too much all at once. With an industrial production roughly one-third that of the U.S., Russia is 1) maintaining the world's largest armed forces, 2) trying to overtake the U.S. in production of meat, milk and butter, 3) sending aid not only to the satellites and Red China but also to susceptible Middle East nations, 4) facing an increasingly vociferous domestic demand for better housing and more consumer goods...
...with guns and medical supplies, but with long, niggling messages on ideological and political matters. Why did Tito call one of his detachments the "Proletariat Brigade"? Could he not just as well fight under his real name of Josip Broz instead of using the conspiratorial nickname of Tito? Later, Stalin was to complain about the Soviet red stars the partisans wore on their caps: "What do you need red stars for? You are only frightening the British. The form is not important...
Though a devoted Communist, Tito was also a romantic-and a ham-to whom form was important. He saw himself as a fiery revolutionary, 1917 model, waving a Red flag on the barricades. Stalin, fighting for his own life and that of his grey, monolithic regime, wanted no Balkan hothead making the Allies suspicious of Communism's ultimate intentions. He was to declare airily: "I will shake my little finger, and there will be no more Tito." This exciting, carefully documented book helps explain why, although there is no more Stalin, there is still a Tito...
Tito has long dreamed of a Balkan federation dominated by Tito: his ambitions in this direction were one cause of the 1948 quarrel with Stalin, who never tolerated the notion of "many roads to Socialism." Tito also is a man who talks of the need to break up the rival Eastern and Western blocs, though he makes a good living by playing one off against the other. He thus becomes a potentially useful middleman. In his old worrisome days, he sought the help of capitalistic Greece and Turkey against Moscow. Now Khrushchev would like to revive this moribund Balkan pact...