Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regime has been its emphasis on glasnost, an officially sanctioned openness about Soviet society's shortcomings and difficulties. Now glasnost has spread to the realm of culture, where a renewed atmosphere of artistic freedom has allowed the appearance of controversial works, especially those dealing with the long- suppressed Stalin...
...week Soviet citizens saw stirring evidence of the new cultural freedom. A recently released film, Repentance, by Director Tengiz Abuladze, was screened for select audiences in Moscow and Tbilisi. Blending fact and fantasy, the film conveys the message that the Soviet Union has yet to acknowledge the horrors of Stalinism. In another dramatic first, a spring 1987 publication date was announced for Soviet Author Anatoli Rybakov's The Children of the Arbat, a major novel about the Stalin era in which the dictator himself is a leading character...
...Some American observers dispute that. As they point out, all too often in the past there have been rumors that Americans should be more flexible in their policies towards the Soviet Union because one Soviet leader or another found himself in difficulty. There were even such rumors about Stalin. Yet the fact remains that there were similar rumors about Krushchev just before he was deposed...
TIME's coverage of dissidents in the Soviet Union goes back nearly 60 years to a 1927 story that reported on Leon Trotsky. Though "excommunicated from the party," TIME wrote of the man who was later assassinated in Mexico on Joseph Stalin's orders, Trotsky "is the leader of the opposition and is uncompromisingly outspoken in his criticism." Since then, and particularly over the past two decades, TIME has reported at great length on the activities of other Soviet citizens who have publicly protested the Kremlin's brutal rule. This week we return again to the subject with a lengthy...
...true believers the change could not have been more startling if Joseph Stalin had bought stock in General Motors. Ronald Reagan, who built his political career by trashing arms-control agreements and demanding a linkage between American cooperation and Soviet good behavior, appears more interested in treaties and a second summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev than in punishing the Soviets for their Daniloff perfidy...