Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start, Ulbricht was a brassy enemy of the intellectuals who had captured control of the party in the early 19205. Ulbricht's pal was a Russian courier who had direct contact with Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in Moscow. Soon Pravda was sniping at the "nonproletarian enemies of the working class in the German party," and soon Ulbricht's enemies were purged. It was time for a major party overhaul; tough, conscientious Walter Ulbricht got the job. Comrade Ulbricht took on the name Genosse Zelle (Comrade Cell), began atomizing the easygoing Communist cliques into tight little cells...
...laden with honors. But his public life was far from over: that same year, Harry Truman appointed Smith U.S. Ambassador to Russia. In that cold war outpost, Smith was a frustrated forward observer. Emerging from the Kremlin one day, he snapped to reporters: "Molotov, three hours. No Stalin. No comment." But his analysis of the Russians was shrewd. The Communists, said Beedle Smith, "have read Von Clausewitz and they believe that war is merely politics transferred to another sphere...
...Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan...
Follow the Leader. In all of Khrushchev's 47,000 words, there was no mention whatsoever of Joseph Stalin, no mention of the U.N. in all the talk of peace and only three brief references to the Chinese Communists, whose possible "contributions to Marxist-Leninism" go completely ignored. Unlike the declaration put together at last fall's 81-nation Communist Party parley, where the Russians had to compromise with Red China, this time there was little mention of "separate roads to socialism." Says the Moscow program: "The main trail of socialism has been blazed . . . sooner or later...
...Stalin planned a draft of his own in 1939, but most of the members of the committee that was to compose it were assassinated on Stalin's orders before they could get down to work...