Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Solzhenitsin's stark account, the first detailed description of Stalin's prison camps ever published in Russia, sold 40,000 copies on newsstands and a second printing of 100,000 was ordered. Glowing reviews, which compared the author to Tolstoy, appeared simultaneously in several newspapers, and it was reported that Khrushchev himself had read the story before publication and cleared...
...even the Stalin kickers might not have their freedom indefinitely. As a Soviet author told a recent Western visitor to Moscow: "Today, yes. But what about yesterday and tomorrow...
...Nikita Khrushchev remembered it last week, Stalin warned his colleagues: "If I die, you will all perish; the imperialists will strangle you." But, added Khrushchev with somewhat muted optimism, "We aren't dead; we are living and working and even pressing on imperialism...
Khrushchev's audience was the plenum of the party's Central Committee, gathered in Moscow to discuss the mess in the Soviet economy. As usual when he needs support, Khrushchev revived memories of the awful Stalin. He was, said Khrushchev, "afraid of the people and locked himself in an armored box." He also shut himself off from the outside world. "The idea was vigorously inculcated that everything of ours is utterly ideal and everything foreign is utterly bad. We should remember Lenin's advice to be able, if necessary, to learn from the capitalists, to imitate...
Anemic Stuff. Mistakes in position are frequent and embarrassing. MOSCOW-NIPS PLOT TO KILL ARMY CHIEFS, cheered a Worker headline, after the ill-starred "doctors' conspiracy" against Stalin in 1953. When Khrushchev released the doctors, the Worker, caught by surprise, hastily backflipped. A 1961 Worker editorial demanding a "permanent ban" on nuclear testing appeared the same week that the Russians resumed testing. In the very next issue, the paper broke out in a rash of four articles justifying and approving the resumption...