Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...podium of the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, - opened a thick folder and began his 2-hr. 41-min. speech. Between Lenin and Gorbachev lay seven decades of Soviet history, much of it officially ignored or obfuscated -- and nearly all of it haunted by the ghost of Joseph Stalin. But Gorbachev had insisted there should be no "blank pages" in his country's past. Now, in an address marking the 70th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, he had an ideal occasion to demonstrate the glasnost (openness) that has become a watchword of his 31 months in power. What...
Gorbachev did, however, fill in a few of Soviet history's most troubling blanks. Not since Nikita Khrushchev's now famous secret speech to the 20th Party Congress in 1956 had a Soviet leader so emphatically denounced the atrocities of the Stalin era -- particularly the terror-filled 1930s, when millions of citizens were arrested or summarily executed, or starved to death as a result of forced collectivization. Declared Gorbachev: "The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the party and the people for the wholesale repressive measures and acts of lawlessness is enormous and unforgivable. This is a lesson...
...speech comes a week after Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Stalin...
Rybakov explained that his was the first book which clearly showed the personality of Stalin. He said that there are others which are waiting to be published, and that the government and the publishers were more willing to discuss Stalin than ever before...
Rybakov's novel will be published in the U.S. this spring. He said that he plans to follow it quickly with a second novel about Stalin's rule from 1935 to 1939, and then with a third about Stalin...