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Just four months before an agent of Joseph Stalin's secret police shattered his skull with an alpine axe in 1940, Bolshevik Revolutionary Leader Leon Trotsky sold his confidential correspondence to Harvard for $10,000. Last week the university's Houghton Library unveiled it. Included were Trotsky's own copies of 17,500 letters written by him and to him from 1927 to 1940, and kept under wraps ever since at Trotsky's own insistence, in order to protect his correspondents from Stalin's possible retribution...
...same planet with this major nuclear power as they must live with us. Hence, I have opposed the human rights doctrine of President Jimmy Carter form the very outset despite my full recognition of the terrible conditions of life in the Soviet Union, though far less terrible than in Stalin's era so that we know more about them and have more contact. Dissidents are allowed to leave, rather than being executed. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union faces a restless internal population, even less productive than we Americans, notably in agriculture; it faces possible dissension of its Moslem and other minorities...
...remained the same: the distinction goes to the person or group who, as it was stated on this page in 1943, "has done the most to change the news, for better or for worse." There have been designees very plainly in the latter category-Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939)-but selection has never necessarily connoted either the magazine's, or the world's, approval of the subject. Thus the editors had little difficulty naming Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, intransigent leader of the Iranian revolution, as TIME'S Man of the Year...
...Trotsky collection is stored in the library stacks in more than 172 black leather cases. Many of the papers, all but those from the period of Stalin's exile, had already been made available to scholars...
Many seem to miss the sense of national unity and purpose they felt under Stalin in World War II and the hope that peace would bring real freedom. For them, Stalin's birthday is an event to be remembered, if not celebrated. Says one Moscow intellectual: "The longing is not for Stalin himself; very few people approve of that style of leadership. It's the dream they miss...