Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the past 20 years, on his own people and on their neighbors, Charles de Gaulle has perfected his native talent for handing out rude surprises. Employing the lofty disdain that used to infuriate Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, De Gaulle succeeded in infuriating Kennedy, Macmillan and a host of others by vetoing Britain's admission to the Common Market...
Last November a Soviet magazine ran the harshest indictment of Stalinism ever printed in Russia: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novel dealing with life in one of Stalin's Siberian concentration camps (which Khrushchev claims to have shut down). On orders from above, the Russian press heaped extravagant praise on the novel. People queued up far into the night for copies at Moscow newsstands; 95,000 were sold in a single...
Perpetually Cold. Solzhenitsyn writes authoritatively of a Siberian labor camp because he spent eight years in one. Twice decorated in World War II. he nevertheless was arrested in 1945 for criticizing Stalin, served his full sentence, and then was forced to stay in exile in Siberia. Only after Khrushchev's anti-Stalin speech was he allowed to return; he now teaches school in a town southeast of Moscow...
...less a literary than a political phenomenon. It lacks the intense psychological probing of the great prison accounts of a Dostoevsky or an Ivo Andric. Even its political significance, which is considerable, should not be exaggerated. Stalin may be fair game for critics in Russia, but the Communist Party and ideology are still off limits. Another novelist, Victor Nekrasov, was recently reprimanded by Izvestia (TIME, Feb. 1) for his comments on traveling in the U.S. He made the mistake, scolded Izvestia, of "painting a fifty-fifty picture of American life," and even "applying his fifty-fifty rule to a comparison...
After several weeks of stunned silence. Moscow's cultural commissars last week slapped Stalin Prizewinner Nekrasov good and hard. His "insulting attitude" toward the security official was bad enough, huffed an editorial in Izvestia. Worse, said the paper, "it is altogether unclear how a Soviet writer contrives not to see the striking social contrasts and class contradictions of American life and the military psychosis fanned by imperialist circles." Nekrasov's error was in trying to give a balanced picture-''black and white sides of American life on a fifty-fifty basis." This, ruled Izvestia, was nothing...