Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. Historian-Journalist Ryan recounts the fall of Hitler's capital and details the Allied blunders that gave Stalin Berlin...
Died. Vaino Tanner, 85, longtime leader of Finland's 100,000-member Social Democrats, an intense nationalist who for half a century steadfastly resisted Russia's interference in his country, so infuriating the Kremlin that in 1946 Stalin had him jailed and twelve years later Khrushchev insisted that Social Democrats be kept out of the government, an injustice remedied last month when the party swept back into power; after a long illness; in Helsinki...
...LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. Historian-Journalist Ryan recounts the fall of Hitler's capital and details the Allied blunders and political naiveté that allowed Stalin to seize Berlin as a prize...
...most published. A former Vice Premier in Marshal Tito's government, he was slapped into jail in 1956 for his sizzling censures of the regime. There he has languished loquaciously for almost a decade, fearlessly issuing criticism, history and fiction about life in Yugoslavia (Conversations with Stalin, The New Class). This book, completed in 1959, is the first detailed biography of Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Prince-Bishop (from 1830 to 1851) of Djilas' native Montenegro, and Serbia's greatest poet. Njegoš is severely out of phase with Djilas' usually remarkable work, however...
...also swapped his title of First Secretary of the Communist Party for the old Stalinist title of General Secretary, and the Presidium, or eleven-member steering committee, was renamed the Politburo-another Stalinist label. But party speakers emphasized that the names derived from Lenin's time, not from Stalin's, and would only strengthen collective leadership...