Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armenian who is Soviet Communism's big-time businessman. To find out all it could about Trader Mikoyan, TIME tracked down men who had bargained with him from Hong Kong to Marseille, ranging from U.S. ambassadors to Germans who dealt with him during the days of the Hitler-Stalin pact. One of the directors of Rome's Armenian Pontifical College insists that Armenians everywhere, Communist or antiCommunist, generally admire him as a "man with a head on his shoulders." Diplomats, defectors, Russian specialists in ten capitals from Bonn to Beirut, and Chicago businessmen who met Mikoyan...
...Outer Mongolia last week, obviously aware that the world was enjoying his humiliation. But he was probably more concerned by the knowledge that another loser before him, Lev Kamenev, had for a time seemingly flourished as Soviet Ambassador to Italy, only to be executed a few years later by Stalin. Among Khrushchev's other victims, Dmitry Shepilov, who rose swiftly but guessed wrong, was reportedly schoolteaching; Kaganovich was said to be running a cement factory...
Worms in the Classics. For the first time, Stalin's successor shed the pretense of "collective leadership" to dish out his own ideological pronouncements. They were earthy and anything but liberal. Khrushchev sneered at "hardheads," "Talmudists" and "parrots" who "learned by heart" old theoretical phrases "not worth a kopeck...
Crying at the Bier. Throughout the three speeches, Khrushchev revealed himself as a man still trying to squeeze free from his own complicity in Stalin's crimes, while well aware that he had gone too far in his sensational, weepy indictment of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress. What is needed now, said Khrushchev, is a balanced view on Stalin, "the positive side which we support and highly value and the negative side which we criticize and condemn." Stalin, he said, had to act in "an atmosphere of fierce struggle against class enemies and their agents in the party...
Khrushchev's tone left no doubt that if he himself finds it desirable, he would, as he remarked approvingly of Stalin, "do what, is necessary"-whether the hand falls on the restless writer or the intriguing Politburocrat...