Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Separate Armies. After a generation of recovering from Stalin and Hitler, today's Soviet leaders may be able to perceive the contours of their national future. Still, it's far from certain that this generation of leaders, or perhaps the next, will lead the Soviet police state into social democracy. They are cynical, philistine power brokers whose world is measured in terms of economic statistics and Communist Party control. There is no sign of the oft-predicted clash between the party bureaucrats and the industrial and scientific technocrats. Although it is rotten at the edges-as provincial political...
...opera that would embody their struggle. His hugely ambitious choice for a story: Tolstoy's War and Peace. What he finally produced in 1943, however, was written in an almost schizoid style-part introspective love story, part heroic showpiece-that was difficult to grasp, easy to misunderstand. Stalin's commissars gave only grudging approval, demanded more pageantry and patriotic fervor. At his death in 1953, the composer was still rewriting the work. He never saw it fully staged...
...Stalin murdered millions, but seldom assassinated to enforce foreign policy. It might be argued that the elimination of Leon Trotsky in his Mexican exile in 1940 was an act of policy, but he was a Russian. A better example was the death of Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk in 1948, a defenestration that the official report described as suicide but was almost surely an act of the Kremlin...
During the rest of his life, DuBois travelled extensively through the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952, the Lenin Peace Prize in 1959 and that same year was honored by Chou En-lai at a birthday dinner in Peking...
While it is part of our civil religion to aid the hungry and to welcome refugees from all over the world, it is a religion we have practiced selectively. At the end of the second World War we turned back to Stalin's armies many Russian soldiers who had escaped, even when it was clear that they would go to labor camps or to the firing squad. We welcomed the Hungarians. Some of us worked to rescue Chileans endangered by the present right-wing junta. But what would be the reaction on the liberal left if we were asked...