Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were even rougher. Communist editors in Hong Kong last week sought out Western newsmen for the first time in years specifically to denounce Khrushchev by name. They revived earlier charges that he had tried to overthrow the Peking regime by destroying blueprints for Chinese economic projects, and complained that Stalin's only mistake was "not killing Khrushchev in the purges." Khrushchev, went the line, is "an amateur Marxist who is betraying the cause with his philosophy of abundance." and is "as jealous of China's growing strength as only a bourgeois woman could...
...describes her new way of life as "halfway between a nun and an athlete." On concert days she goes into total seclusion ("like Stalin lying in state"), and when the awaited hour comes near she does laps backstage to warm up. "I'm not a half child any more," she burbles. "Before, nobody ever let me do anything for myself. Everybody took care of things for me. First my mother, then my husband. Oh, the early days at M-G-M were a lot of laughs. It was all right if you were young and frightened-and we stayed...
...monstrous form of near madness, was taken with deadly seriousness by the Soviet Union. One of the fascinating sidelights of the book, in fact, is its documentation of the persistence of Russia's interest in the Hess mission, long after the Allies had brushed it aside. Stalin continually quizzed Churchill about Hess. In 1944, when the Russian armies captured Hess's luckless aide Major Pintsch, who had been released from Nazi prison in order to fight them, they systematically tortured him, breaking one finger a day for ten days, to find out what he knew...
Planted Cronies. If the Chinese in Peking think that Khrushchev blundered, are there any "Chinese" in Moscow who think so too? Publication in Pravda of a year-old anti-Stalin poem by Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME, Nov. 2) was noted with fascination by some students of Soviet policy; to them it suggested that Khrushchev's crowd was issuing a warning to its Stalinist enemies. In addition, Izvestia stated emphatically that the Soviet decision to withdraw the Cuba missiles was "the only correct one in the prevailing circumstances," which sounded as if a defense of the move had become necessary. Finally...
...positions everywhere. Even before the full-scale battle with the "antiparty group" in 1957, more than 70 of the members of the Central Committee owed their careers to Khrushchev or were his close friends. In fact, one Kremlinologist suggests that "Khrushchev's institutional strength probably exceeds anything that Stalin ever achieved...