Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOURNEY INTO THE WHIRLWIND, by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg. An intensely personal account of the author's experiences in one of Stalin's slave-labor camps...
...consternation, the younger writers and their educated circle of friends are stubbornly resisting the regime's pressures-sticking together, chiding their doctrinaire and bureaucratic elders, and risking jail or worse to win more freedom. To the Kremlin's embarrassment, the grandson of Old Bolshevik Maksim Litvinov, Stalin's Foreign Minister from 1930 to 1939, has turned out to be one of the writers' most aggressive allies. Last week Pavel Litvinov's notes on the proceedings of the September trial in Moscow of his friend, Writer Vladimir Bukovsky, 26, reached several Western newspapers. In them Litvinov...
...grand question of what shape Europe would assume after the ultimate victory. Macmillan had seen the Poles left to defeat and noted Chamberlain's indifferent impotence with contempt and pity. Then, in mid-1944, he saw decisions made that reflected Franklin Roosevelt's obsessive desire to please Stalin and his "almost pathological suspicions" of British foreign policy, "especially in the Balkans...
JOURNEY INTO THE WHIRLWIND, by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg. An intensely personal account of the author's experiences in one of Stalin's slave-labor camps...
...happily married mother of three children, a loyal party member, and a schoolteacher and journalist in Kazan in eastern Russia. At that time, also, there was published a four-volume History of the All-Union Communist Party, which, in its coverage of the 1905 Czarist terrors, displeased Stalin; it contained certain "errors" in connection with the theory of permanent revolution. Professor Nikolai Naumovich Elvov, who had written the offending passage, also happened to be the author of a source book on Tartar history. Incredibly, Mrs. Ginzburg was arrested and denounced as a Trotskyite and counter-revolutionary because she had failed...