Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed last week to the newly created post of unifier of the Communist Party's Press Section and the Soviet Union's Propaganda & Agitation Department was Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, 42. Comrade Zhdanov, noted for his purging zeal, during the past year has been one of Boss Stalin's two top assistants in the Communist Party's secretariat...
...factory in 1930 from the famed Hammer family, U. S. small-businessmen who bought a pencil-manufacture monopoly in the Soviet Union from the State under the NEP or "New Economic Policy" of Nikolai Lenin. They cleaned up huge profits making pencils for Communists to plan with, and the Stalin State finally paid the Hammers $1,000,000 for their going concern, let them take out Romanov antiques which they now sell on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
...Joseph Stalin has now decided to make trouble for the democratic governments of Western Europe by promoting general strikes and "World Revolution'' (TIME, Nov. 21), and if there is anything in it for European trade union bosses not themselves Communists, Léon Jouhaux is going to get what...
Album of Russian Modern Music (Orchestre Symphonique of Paris, Julius Ehrlich conducting; Columbia: 4 sides). Two years ago Dictator Joseph Stalin and his ministry of art, worried about the trend Russian music was taking, flayed the works of Russian modernists for reflecting "leftist tendencies." Those curious to know what it was that worried Comrade Stalin will find it in Mossolov's pounding Steel Foundry and Meytuss' cacophonous Dnieper Water Power Station, both included on these discs...
...said that food was scarce even in some rich agricultural sections. Soviet newspapers had recently criticized the widespread neglect of agricultural machinery, and failure to provide proper fuel for tractors, binders, harvesting machines. The Soviet Union's last famine, in 1933, was caused by peasant opposition to Dictator Stalin's collectivization program. The present agricultural difficulties seem to be caused: 1) by the chaotic conditions in the much-purged Commissariat of Agriculture; 2) by an attempt to impose on recalcitrant farmers a crop-alternating scheme...