Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ablest writers of the New Left are preoccupied with the doubts and dreams of Soviet youth. The most notable: Vladimir Tendryakov, a young prose writer whose most memorable story, about an escaped convict who bilks his rescuers, is a horrifying allegory aimed subtly at ex-Convict Joseph Stalin; Victor Rozov, most censured and celebrated for a script about a disturbed youth who cannot understand how his elders could defend evil from political necessity; Vasily Aksenov, whose young jets are pictured as mixed-up idealists; Victor Nekrasov, a psychological novelist with a penchant for the bewildered and inarticulate...
...literature of truth is still highly controversial in Russia. Poets and novelists no longer face firing squads; but a writer who goes too far can be cut off from his royalties, or locked up. One recent victim was Author Michael Naritsa, 53, who suffered exile and imprisonment under Stalin, began asking for trouble again in 1960 when he smuggled his latest novel, The Unsung Song, out of the country by unorthodox means: unable to contact a foreign publisher, he bundled up his manuscript, attached to it a labeled plea in four languages (see cut}, and thrust it into...
Djilas' latest book, Conversations with Stalin, is painfully embarrassing to Tito. Any revelation of intimate Kremlin secrets might upset delicate Soviet-Yugoslav relations. The book discloses details of Tito's plan to move two army divisions into neighboring Albania and take over the Communist satellite. In January 1948, Djilas reports, Stalin enthusiastically supported the scheme, told the author: "You ought to swallow up Albania, the sooner the better."* But a few days later, the Soviet dictator changed his mind, fearing Tito's increased influence in the Balkans. Hastily, Stalin sent a telegram to Belgrade warning that...
Originally scheduled to appear in the U.S. in May, Conversations with Stalin was "indefinitely postponed" last week by the U.S. publisher (Harcourt, Brace) in the hope of sparing Djilas some danger...
...Though hardly embarrassing to Tito, other fascinating snatches of Stalin's conversation with Djilas: "Churchill is the kind who, if you don't watch him, will slip a kopeck out of your pocket. And Roosevelt? He dips in his hand only for bigger coins." "The West will make Western Germany their own, and we shall turn Eastern Germany into our state . . . We shall recover in 15 or 20 years and then we'll have another...