Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting difficult again. This time we've got to swallow it." Western observers, to whom the remark leaked, guessed what Tito was talking about: a few carping lines in Moscow's Pravda drawing attention to the fact that trials are still being held for repatriated pro-Stalin Yugoslavs, hundreds of whom Tito is said to have jailed. A later report that cropped up in Warsaw-that the Soviet Central Committee was circulating a letter describing Tito as no Marxist-Leninist, but one of those hated leftist Social Democrats*-seemed to confirm a growing rift between Yugoslav and Soviet...
This line is that Stalin was fundamentally right in keeping the satellite and foreign parties completely subservient to Moscow's will, and that any relaxation of this attitude, as happened in Poland, means big trouble and may mean final disintegration of the Soviet empire. In opposition to this view stands First Party Secretary Khrushchev, backed by Presidium Member Mikoyan and other top anti-Stalinists, who believe that a certain autonomy must be given the satellite and foreign parties-and have been giving it. .Khrushchev's spectacular destalinization program launched last February gave him a dramatic lead over...
...names have been more closely linked in Communist propaganda than those of Soviet Russia's Joseph Stalin and Red China's Mao Tse-tung. One of the first questions raised by First Party Secretary Khrushchev's exposure of Stalin as an egomaniac and mass murderer last February was, How does this affect Mao? Last week, gathered for the eighth National Party Congress in their history, the first since 1945, Chinese Communists let it be known that the "cult" of Mao's "personality" was ended, but that Mao was still their august leader...
...five years Japan's "Little Stalin" was a teak-jawed, cold-eyed ex-factory worker named Shigeo Shida. All other top Communists had fled to China after General MacArthur ordered a crackdown on Communists in 1950. Shida stayed, went underground and took over command by default. A hardened revolutionary with a taste for cold-blooded intrigue and a record of twelve years in prison, Shida built up a strong following among the younger, tougher comrades. He appointed himself chief of the party's "military committee," decreed a policy of unflinching violence. "We must always be prepared to give...
...last two months the Russians have shown some impatience with Tito's propaganda in the satellite states, where he encourages local Communist autonomy in line with the "many roads to socialism" thesis. His jailing of Moscow-repatriated Yugoslav Communists who took the Cominform side in his quarrel with Stalin has drawn a rebuke from Pravda. Did Soviet leaders think the time had come to cut Tito down to size...