Word: stalins
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...thing, Soviet officials had insisted that Andropov was recovering. For another, no amount of warning and contingency planning renders the actual event routine when the deceased is the leader of the Soviet Union. So it was with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev-all of whom were, like Yuri Andropov, a long time dying, and all of whose deaths occasioned not just obituaries but portentous talk of epochs and turning points. If Andropov's passing occasioned anxiety as well, it was because questions the experts have been asking for so long could still not be answered...
They either die on the job (as Lenin, Stalin and Brezhnev did), or they are thrown out and end up as pensioners in ignominy (as Georgi Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev were...
...authoritarian "socialism" in the East. But if Louis has argued for any world-view in his brillaint End-papers, it is that the U.S. and the USSR form an axis of repression. As long as we think that our political choices are limited to Calvin Coolidge or Josef Stalin, we will be paralyzed with fear and trembling...
...veteran Yevtushenko watchers, such comments sound like the Angry Young Poet of old. During the Khrushchev era, Yevtushenko became a hero of liberal Soviet intellectuals for his bold poems condemning anti-Semitism (Babi Yar) and Stalin's reign of terror (The Heirs of Stalin), many of which he recited on poetry-reading tours of the West. Beginning in the late 1960s, Yevtushenko's dissident fire seemed to dim, as he churned out "official" verse celebrating Soviet workers and attacking...
When I first went to the Soviet Union in 1957, four years after Stalin's death. I was astounded how much independence of thought there existed under the crust of conformity, what eccentric ideas young Kussians had managed on their own to develop. Since then, many of these ideas have spilled into Soviet public life, the vitality and exuberance of which is concealed from sight by the regime's grip on the media. In addition, the Soviet government is discovering that the only way to increase productivity is to resort to contractual arrangements with individual workers and peasants. Thus...