Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real condition." Nearly two decades later, the saga of Soviet Poet Boris (Doctor Zhivago) Pasternak suggests that the century's loneliest crowd consists of creative intellects behind Iron and .Bamboo Curtains. Even when these curtains rise briefly, as during the thaw that followed Stalin's death, they reveal strictly solitary singers. At one time or another, the authors represented in these two collections of protesting voices belonged to the chummy writers' cliques of Warsaw. Belgrade and other Red capitals. Yet most of their experiences have been shaped into painfully isolated visions...
...Worse Than Stalin." Just what the U.S. can expect when the Geneva conference resumes next week-and how little the public Kozlov grin showed the true face of Soviet policy-was plain this week when New York's ex-Governor Averell Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in 1943-46, reported, in LIFE and in memos to top Administration policymakers, on his talks with Premier Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS). To Harriman, Khrushchev seemed to be dangerously cocky, dangerously ignorant of the West. Even after discounting Khrushchev's performance as tactical bluffing in part, Harriman found him "shocking, worse...
...Case." Kozlov's climb to the big time paralleled the infamous purges that constituted the so-called "Leningrad Case" of 1948-49, when Stalin Protege Georgy Malenkov directed liquidation of Central Committee Secretary Andrei Zhdanov. When the pall lifted, there, mysteriously, was Frol Kozlov, party leader of the city. Good Communist Kozlov kept his nose clean, and in 1953 First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev did him the honor of traveling all the way to Leningrad to install Kozlov as party leader for all of Leningrad region...
...called Electrical Workers' Union Boss James Carey a "tradeunion bureaucrat." Introduced to little (5 ft. 10 in.) House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Kozlov observed that Rayburn's opposite number in the Soviet Union is a lot taller. Replied Mister Sam dryly: "I'm kind of like Stalin-they sawed...
...times larger than yours." Later, he mawkishly spoke of the man responsible for all this progress, the same man that he himself denounced three years ago in his dramatic, weepy oration to the 20th Party Congress as a maniac who had deported, tortured and killed by the millions. Describing Stalin's last days, in the first such account ever given a Westerner, Khrushchev told Harriman that for three days he, Beria, Bulganin and Malenkov had kept their vigil at Stalin's dacha while the great man lay in a final coma. Suddenly. Stalin awoke, and weakly pointing...