Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cultural Revolution. Some argue that the Revolution may be the most gigantic experiment in remolding human nature that has ever been attempted--an experiment, which they claim, the Soviet Union could not and dared not embark upon. They point out that there is a considerable difference between Stalinism and Maoism because 1) the Chinese purges are bloodless, 2) the philosophy behind this Revolution is based on a theory of class struggle within a socialist society, and 3) Stalin did not have a plan for establishing "communes." A considerable portion of the Japanese intellectual community falls into this category...
...when the Defense Minister P'eng Te-huai was deposed. While it is true that a few followers of Kao and P'eng were ousted, these purges only temporarily jarred the solidarity of the Maoist leadership and clearly did not convince the nation in the manner of the Stalin purges of the thirties...
...achieving as little in the hierarchy of Communism as the Party was achieving in the hierarchy of the country, he despaired of ending up on the wrong side of the fence. The ugly affairs of the Communist underground--either in fact or in Chambers' romanticized imagination--plus events in Stalin's Russia must have triggered a more sudden and violent change in Chambers than in his less devoted comrades. His total commitment became total disillusionment...
...toward Moscow. The latest outburst was the result of a very curious incident that occurred right in the epicenter of world Communism, Moscow's Red Square. There, 69 Chinese students, en route home from European universities to join the Red Guards, stopped off to place a wreath on Stalin's grave, reading from their little red Mao-think books and singing Maoist hymns. The two onetime allies gave their own versions of what happened next. Said the Chinese: "A large number of Soviet troops, policemen and plainclothesmen attacked them from all sides and beat them up. More than...
...aging revolutionary who wants to turn back the clock. Mao moved when he saw that China had begun to show signs of the same mellowing of aspirations, the same desire for material well-being above ideology, that to his horror he had watched overtake Russia in the years after Stalin. Mao does not want to go the way of Stalin in history after his death, nor does he want China to go the way of "bourgeois, revisionist" Russia. "He seeks nothing less than the rejuvenation of a great revolution," says Hong Kong Sinologist Mark Gayn, "the rebirth in middle...