Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...created internal cleavages. For the first time in history, the party's policies divide the communist C.G.T., the largest workers union in France. The party's perplexing silence on the exile of scientist Andrei Sakharov has alienated academics and intellectuals. Not since 1956, when Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin threw the PCF and its hard line Stalinism into a blender, has the party experienced such internal dissent. As the party splits, a tight-knit nucleus of traditional militants assumes control, ignoring the petitions of frustrated members...
From former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to current president Leonid I. Brezhnev, Soviet foreign policy has not changed significantly, Bush declared, saying that the Afghanistan invasion was a "logical extension of policies designed to create a change in the world power balance...
Later, when he traveled to Peking in search of a job as a librarian, scholars laughed at his southern (Hunan) dialect. In this respect, Wilson said, Mao resembles leaders, all of whom came from outlying provinces, such as Napolean, a Corsican, Hitler, an Austrian, and Stalin, a Georgian...
...arrival in the 1940's of nuclear weapons left the Russian military confused. Stalin wanted them, but he hardly appreciated the revolution in warfare which they had brought about. His successors wavered for a while, torn between the desire to obtain their own stockpile of atomic and thermonuclear bombs, and the fear instilled in them by the American theory that nuclear war is suicidal. Finally, the matter was turned over to high-level committees composed of political figures, military personnel, and scientists. These specialists addressed themsleves to the fundamental question: is there or is there not political-military utility...
Kopelev served as the model for the kindly Communist character Lev Rubin in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle. After Stalin's death, all charges were lifted against Kopelev. Last week, however, Kopelev packed himself a small suitcase in readiness for yet another possible trip to the Gulag...