Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist state, even when men try to liberalize it, cannot do without coercion and police power. Author Gibney finds another way of saying this, in the words of a witty Polish intellectual. In a small Jewish congregation, so goes the story, a young Communist was puzzling about one of Stalin's famous slogans and asked: "Tell me, Comrade Rabbi, can you build 'socialism in one country'?" The rabbi thought deeply. "Yes," he replied finally. "You can build socialism in one country, but you have to live in another...
...Despite a generation of Communist propaganda, the Soviet people do not believe that Americans are villainous. After seeing spontaneous demonstrations for the Nixon party, an American who had known Russia in Stalin's day said: "I had to pinch myself to be sure I wasn't dreaming...
...comparing Russia in the time of Stalin and under the present regime, Elliott agreed that the country "has relaxed greatly" since then. During a previous trip to the U.S.S.R., Elliott spoke with Stalin. In light of his recent trip, Elliott says, "the people still look overburdened, but they showed their own genuine desire for friendship...
From their day-to-day study of the Soviet citizezn and the "continuity and change in the life experience of individuals and groups," they report that the change in values grew out of the years of deprivation and forced industrialization under Stalin...
...before, a badly shaken and bellicose Nikita Khrushchev had flown into Warsaw only to find that he had been outmaneuvered: the new boss of Poland-which had come so close to open rebellion against the Soviet Union -was none other than Wladyslaw Gomulka, an out-of-favor Communist whom Stalin had once arrested for refusing to castigate Tito. "Traitor!" Khrushchev bellowed at him during that all-night 1956 session in the Belvedere Palace. "If you don't obey, we will crush...