Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero. Not until early last month did Khrushchev feel ready to make his move. Then, with all the fanfare due Zhukov's rank as Defense Minister and a member of the Presidium that rules the Communist Party, the unsuspecting marshal was shipped off on a state visit to Yugoslavia-a trip that was scheduled to last two weeks but was suddenly extended to three when Zhukov unexpectedly got orders to proceed from Yugoslavia to Albania...
Although the State Department was recently having trouble in its relations with Yugoslavia, the Experimenters who went there this summer had no difficulties developing friendships with the Yugoslavs, reports James D. Lorenz '60, one of the group members...
Lorenz and eight other Americans who Experimented in Sarajevo were the fifth group to visit the Communist country. The first Experimenters to Yugoslavia, in 1851, spent the summer working on a volunteer labor project...
Lorenz and the others arrived in Rotterdam by student ship on July 12, and traveled by train to Yugoslavia. For the next three and a half weeks, the Harvard student became a member of the Kamakovsky family in an apartment-housing project in Sarajevo. The five-year-old housing development, built by the government for factory workers, contained some 1800 apartments, an elementary school, and a shopping center...
Pointing to such men as Djilas in Yugoslavia and Kolakowski in Poland (TIME, Oct. 14), Salisbury quoted a Warsaw observer: "What the West must remember about this process is that all of this started inside the Communist Party. The sharpest critics are Communists or men closely associated with Communism. The process of evolution or revolution is occurring within the Communist movement because that is where the best minds of these countries have been assembled by force of circumstance." Concludes Salisbury: "The Communist myth in Eastern Europe, never strongly established, seems broken beyond repair. This becomes apparent when even the writers...