Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that important branch of Russian political show business-public condemnation of the regime's enemies-styles have changed. Stalin's show trials specialized in public confessions followed by quiet executions in the cellar. Khrushchev generally dispenses with the deadly finale, but instead of letting his victims reveal their own past, he himself holds stage center and tells their stories for them. At this kind of monologue, Khrushchev and his friends at the 22nd Party Congress last week continued to prove themselves masterful. One by one, once famed party names were hauled out again and their misdeeds splashed...
Early Discord. The alliance cracked at the outset in 1924 when Stalin ordered the fledgling Chinese Communists to merge with Chiang Kai-shek to further Russia's long-range aim of ousting the West from China. Only three years later, Chiang abruptly turned on his local Communist allies...
...Coexistence" Quarrel. From the time of Khrushchev's posthumous assassination of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress in 1956-a move about which Peking had received no forewarning-other serious disagreements developed. For one thing, the Chinese were opposed (as they said last week) to washing Marxist dirty linen in public; they also feared, reported British Historian G. F. Hudson, the restoration of "the exclusive supreme authority which had belonged to the Kremlin under Stalin and which Khrushchev, in spite of his repudiation of 'Stalinism,' was in practice trying to preserve...
...Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan...
SINCE the death of Stalin, American readers have each year been subjected to the same stock exposes of the spuriousness of Soviet production figures, the tyranny over free expression, the prohibitions against tourist photography, etc., all written by eager reporters just back from their first encounter with Russian travel and anxious to show that they too can write a New York Times Magazine article. Yet, from time to time, an excellent travel account by an expert in Soviet affairs is published: Maurice Hindus' new book is just such an exception...