Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denunciation of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In the years between, he served as interpreter (and sometimes adviser) to Franklin Roosevelt at the Teheran and Yalta conferences and to Harry Truman at Potsdam (where he tried without much success to explain the intricacies of American baseball to Joseph Stalin...
Underlying the Kremlin's dilemma is Gulag's unanswerable challenge to the authority, indeed the legitimacy of the post-Stalin regime. This challenge is implicit in Solzhenitsyn's call for the punishment of the more than 250,000 people that he estimates are guilty of the crimes he details in his book. Responsibility reaches far beyond former concentration-camp guards. By implication, myriad Soviet bureaucrats in the entire present-day chain of command are culpable. Recalling the punishment inflicted on prisoners like himself, Solzhenitsyn writes of those accountable: "We must be generous and not shoot them...
...prose style that combines rich digression with bitter clarity, she told how Stalin played a sadistic game of cat and mouse with her and her husband...
...same thing," says Nadezhda Mandelstam, who at 74 is one of the last relics of a class once respectfully known as the Russian intelligentsia. For 50 years she has lived and suffered in the shadow of her famous husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in one of Stalin's prison camps during the winter of 1938. Two years ago Mrs. Mandelstam introduced herself to the West with Hope Against Hope, a book-never published in the Soviet Union-that established her as one of the great memoirists of the century...
...been in the area of theater, where he has been able to offer more venturesome seasons than anything available on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge. This year, for example, he has already put on Robert Wilson's twelve-hour epic The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (TIME, Dec. 31) and the Chelsea Theater Center's sparkling revival of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. This week Lichtenstein unveils his greatest coup yet: a three-month season by three top British repertory companies. Playgoers will be able to see the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Young...