Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school curriculum based on adulation of his teachings. Korea watchers in the U.S. doubt that he would trifle with his self-created legend merely to score a propaganda victory. Says a Reagan Administration official: "It's awfully difficult to imagine they'd do that. Kim Il Sung is like Stalin at the peak of his power...
...diplomatic career that spanned the first four decades of Soviet history, Molotov earned the sobriquets "Old Stone Bottom" and "Mr. Iron Pants" from those who witnessed his legendary staying power at the negotiating table. Before his death at age 96, the loyal lieutenant and unquestioning henchman of Joseph Stalin had managed to hold out long enough to enjoy a bittersweet official rehabilitation in 1984 as one of the last survivors of the band of revolutionaries who created the world's first Communist state...
...against Soviet tanks during the winter war of 1939-40. The Molotov cocktail gained further notoriety a year later, when ill- equipped Soviet troops were forced to deploy the makeshift fire bombs against advancing German armor. After the Nazi invasion began, it was Molotov, not the stunned and demoralized Stalin, who announced the shocking news to his countrymen in a radio broadcast...
...transformed? We don't yet know. We know only that it can be modified. It can give way to a society with more space. How much? Writing 20 years ago, one of the great theorists of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, noted a "detotalitarization" in the Soviet Union after Stalin's death. This could not be dismissed as a temporary thaw, she argued. True, the Soviet Union has never since returned to the depths of Stalinism. But it has not moved significantly in the opposite direction either. Instead, it has been subject to cycles of thaw and freeze. The relative liberalization under...
Within that range, totalitarianism may be finding its new equilibrium: aspiration to totality but with a concession of some social space. This permits effective control of society at a level of violence and vigilance that, unlike Stalin's or Hitler's terror, is sustainable indefinitely...