Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With sweep and color, the book tells how Lenin turned from a peaceful student into a fiery revolutionist after the czarist police killed his brother. In detail, the authors unfold the subsequent chain of tragedies: Lenin's minority-party power grab in 1917, Stalin's further perversion of Marxist ideals. Russia's nationalistic heroism in World War II and its postwar imperialism, the chilling struggle for Kremlin power after Stalin's death, and the sharp differences among Communist countries. Adlai Stevenson praises the book for its "new insights" and "fresh, factual appraisal...
...Stalin used to pretend that the interests of the Soviet Union and those of the Communist Parties of East Europe were identical; Khrushchev is now reaping the unhappy results of this untruth. How likely is it that we an impress a parallel idea on West Europe...
...times, the event has overwhelmed any single man: the Korean G.I. in 1950, and the Hungarian Freedom Fighter in 1956 anonymously represented many. Often the choice of a Man of the Year became an accolade, but not always, and in the years when the likes of Joe Stalin or Hitler was chosen, there were many angry readers who did not grasp our definition: a man or woman who dominated the news that year and left an indelible mark - for good or ill - on history. Khrushchev was allowed to look triumphant the year of the Sputnik (1957), but Hitler...
Even the social realist critics he had tried so hard to please ever since Stalin had scolded him for bourgeois tendencies had shown little patience with the bombastic Leninism of his Eleventh and Twelfth revolutionary symphonies. Mocking rumor had it that in his dacha outside Moscow, Shostakovich would next write a Sputnik symphony, and after that, a Soviet soccer symphony...
Today the signs of Sovietization are everywhere. The architecture of Ulan Ba tor is Stalin-modern. The national newspaper Unen is a replica of Moscow's Pravda, and both words mean "truth." The farmers and herdsmen are grouped in collectives and on state farms, as in Russia. The No. i Communist, Tsedenbal, heads both the government and the party, as Khrushchev does in Moscow. Ulan Bator has a mausoleum, containing Sukhe Bator's remains, similar to the Lenin tomb in the Soviet capital. In 1946, Mongols adopted the Russian Cyrillic alphabet; their army is Russian trained and equipped...