Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Stalin's death, Khrushchev relieved the papers' grey monotony by allowing more lively coverage and makeup. As editor of Izvestia, Khrushchev's son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei, introduced a degree of cautious criticism; he also went in for some mild sensationalism, such as reporting the activities of the Abominable Snowman...
Adzhubei lost his job along with Khrushchev, but the trend to more flexibility in the press was not reversed. Today's Russian bosses, Brezhnev and Kosygin, play down the cult of personality (though they do not provide as lively copy as did Khrushchev). While Stalin's name used to appear in boldface and was given prominent display in most news stories, the present leaders are apparently content to have their names occasionally omitted from copy-which does not mean they are about to be demoted or disappear. Since news coverage is no longer a sure...
Behind the Masses. In Stalin's time, any party hack might wind up working for a newspaper. Today, journalism departments at 18 universities turn out 950 graduates a year. Tass, the official news agency, exchanges news in New York with A.P. and U.P.I., and from time to time Russian newsmen drop in to observe U.S. wire-service operations. All told, there are some 160 Russian correspondents overseas; in many of the underdeveloped nations of Africa and Asia, they outnumber their Western counterparts, and they often scoop the West on stories in these areas. "There are plenty of capable newsmen...
Died. Benjamin Gitlow, 73, organizer and onetime general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, who was summarily read out of the movement in 1929 after rejecting Stalin's demand for greater subservience of the U.S. party to the Soviet Union, thereupon wrote a detailed expose of Red activities in the U.S., became a star witness of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, was widely criticized for falsely accusing others of Communist complicity, later drifted into obscurity; of a heart attack; in Crompond...
Prayer for Redemption. Author Tertz's aim is "to be truthful with the aid of the absurd and the fantastic." In his Orwellian fairy tale, Tertz twits Stalin and the cult of personality, Khrushchev and the cult of propaganda, the military mind, the herd instinct, and all the dizzy isms of contemporary Soviet life. He is intensely critical of human arrogance and folly, yet somehow views it all with detachment, as if from another point...