Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin spoke of the continuity of Soviet policy. If anything were to happen to him, there would be good men ready to step into his shoes...
Georgy Malenkov was the man Stalin chose six months before his death in 1953 to step into his bloodied jack boots. But last week pudgy Georgy Malenkov. like hundreds of thousands of Communists before him, was on his way to banishment in Asia's outer reaches. Kicked out of the Soviet Communist Party Presidium and Central Committee, demoted from the Ministry of Electric Power Stations, he had been put on a job as a Dynamo-Dan at a hydroelectric project at Ust Kameno-gorsk in the remote Altai Mountains near the Mongolian border-1,800 crow-flight miles from...
...doctrine, expounded by Marx, Lenin and Stalin, is an all-embracing one, Conant said, one which allows no other and which was first advanced for the proletariat so that it might win its great battle against capitalist domination...
...Soviet industry in a manner that would put the great plants and government enterprises under the control of his own regional and district party chiefs, instead of being centralized in Moscow. He could argue that the Moscow bureaucracy was top-heavy; it is. But Khrushchev had another motive. As Stalin's personnel manager, Malenkov had been largely responsible for building up the industrial technocracy. He had his principal supporters there. Malenkov saw a threat to his own strength, and fought back...
RUSSIA IN TRANSITION, by Isaac Deutscher (245 pp.; Coward-McCann; $4.50), is a sheaf of essays mostly written during the '50s further bolstering the author's accurate 1953 prediction (in Russia: What Next?) that the Soviet political tundra was due for a big thaw after Stalin's death. Indeed, Polish-born Author Deutscher consumes an inordinate amount of time and space just crowing ("As to my severe critics, I shall only ask how many of them would venture to republish now in book form the views they expressed on Soviet prospects six, seven, or only three years...