Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...74th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Stalin, Novelist Howard Fast was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (value: about $25,000 taxfree) for 1953-"the highest honor," he called it, "that can be conferred on any person in these times." New York City-born Author Fast, 41 (Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road), commended himself to the Kremlin by his judgments on the Communist Party ("No nobler, no finer product of man's existence") and the mid-century U.S. ("Only one virtue remains-betrayal-and the only measure of human worth is the measure of a pimp"). Beyond these words...
...Never Again." Fast still had praise for Soviet glories that in his view transcended Stalin, e.g., "the achievements of socialism, the destruction of the Nazi madmen, the goodness and humanism of the Soviet people, the building and rebuilding of the great Soviet land, the leadership of the struggle for peace and the good right hand stretched out to colonial people and oppressed people everywhere. But I must say that if Russia has in me a friend, it also has a severe and implacable critic. Never again will I remain silent when I can recognize injustice, regardless of how that injustice...
...before him-Comrades Molotov and Miko-yan-Lazar Kaganovich, at 62, has lost his big job, but not his head. One by one the Old Stalinists are disappearing from sight so that two other Old Stalinists, Bulganin and Khrushchev, can get on with their story that the heirs of Stalin had nothing to do with...
Many Social Democrats, including Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, the party's leader, were far from happy to see Matteotti negotiating with Stalin Peace Prize winner Nenni. And right from the start, Nenni flatly refused to meet the most critical Social Democratic condition for collaboration-a demand that he break his "unity of action" pact with the Communists. Matteotti, carefully leaving the door open to further negotiations, said that the first round of talks produced "no ruptures and no miracles." At week's end, however, Saragat stepped in to make it clear that neither he nor the Social Democratic...
...Russian economy doing? In Stalin's day it was hard to tell, since the figures given were percentage gains from a base that was seldom given. Last week a comprehensive set of hard figures emerged for the first time, as the Russians published their first volume of production statistics in 17 years. According to The National Economy of the U.S.S.R., between...