Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comment on the limits of Khrushchev's power (compared with Stalin's) that the issue was debated. In the Supreme Soviet four Deputies asked for changes. A government decree announced that Khrushchev's closest associate, Nikolai K. Baibakov, chairman of the Gosplan (top planning commission), had been demoted and replaced by Iosif I. Kuzmin, a complete unknown in the hierarchy of Soviet greats. Kuzmin was known only to have graduated from engine driver to boss of a Moscow experimental production plant. His modest history gave no hint of where he stood in the party power struggle except...
...Harvard Law School professor revealed in Moscow yesterday a Russian claim that the Soviet Union's prison population has decreased by 70 percent since the death of Joseph Stalin...
Berman said Kudryavtsev told him that more than half of the total Soviet prison population was released immediately after Stalin's death under the amnesty law of 1953. All sentences passed during the last 25 years have been or are being reexamined, even those already completed, Berman was told...
...Dumbbell. Nowhere in Molotov's 3,000-word Pravda article was there mention of an earlier claimant to the same honor, whose name today is actually carved beside that of Lenin on the famous tomb in Red Square: Stalin. Since Stalin had long ago seen to it that few witnesses of those early Petrograd days remained alive in Russia, there was no one around to dispute with Molotov his actual relationship with Lenin. But the archives of Leninism still held their verdict. In a letter commenting on Molotov's work, the exiled Lenin wrote: "We have received...
Among the chief architects of the terror that reigned in Hungary between 1949 and 1953 were a father and son. When Stalin ordered bullet-headed Party Boss Matyas Rakosi to liquidate the top party and government leadership, from Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk down, on the grounds of Titoism, Rakosi knew where to turn for help. His man: Defense Minister Mihaly Farkas, a longtime Stalinist. In a key position in the AVH (security police) at that time was Farkas' son, Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Farkas...