Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about 8,500 from 80,000 in 1944-was holding its first national convention since 1950. Prime purpose of the four-day, closed-door session: to select a new national committee and to heal the three-way split in party ranks that had followed Moscow's "downgrading" of Stalin, its "upgrading" of Stalin, and the brutal intervention in Hungary...
...name much better known to the average American than to the average Russian. Gromyko's diplomatic career began as a rebuke to the U.S. when Stalin, withdrawing Maxim Litvinoff in 1943 as a protest against the absence of a second front, offhandedly made Litvinoff's 34-year-old secretary the Washington ambassador...
Worried Neighbor. Across the eastern border the Russians are watching this strange sight uneasily. The mixed economy is not a new phenomenon, but an expedient, in Soviet politics. In 1921 Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) tolerated private enterprise, but when Stalin thought the economy was sufficiently on its feet again, he ruthlessly liquidated every vestige of free enterprise. In Red China today, Party Leader Mao Tse-tung tolerates a controlled capitalism for the same purpose...
...World War II. When the Russians set up the Polish Communist regime in 1944, they placed Jews in key positions in the bureaucracy. An obvious reason for this was that the Jews were beyond question reliable "anti-Fascists." A more sinister accusation is that in Poland as in Hungary, Stalin deliberately placed Jews in high positions in order to have convenient scapegoats at a later date for the vast depredations he planned in Poland...
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