Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble centers by Isvestia were Irkutsk in Siberia, Minsk and Smolensk in White Russia, Kiev in the Ukraine, and three important towns on the upper, middle and lower Volga River - Yarosalve, Samara and Stalingrad. The latter and famed town is not the birth place of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin but a strategic base which he valorously defended against the "White Armies" during the Bolshevist Revolution. Son-of-Ivan. The Kulak murders of last week did not foreshadow a revolt of the peasantry as a whole, in the expert opinion of veteran New York Times Correspondent Walter Duranty; but unquestionably they...
...prestige of President Kalinin with even "Political Boss" Stalin is due largely to his influence with the great mass of peasants and secondly to his long and impeccable record as a revolutionary. At 14 he began to work intermittently in a cartridge factory at St. Petersburg, during the slack winter season on his father's farm, and was almost at once fired with the pure flame of Revolution. His success in interpreting citified Marxian doctrines to peasant friends at home was phenomenal. Soon enough, however, the Imperial Police transformed his life into a long, incessant struggle punctuated with arrests...
Significantly enough the more urban and proletarian members of the Communist Party dominated by Dictator Josef Stalin suspect that the Son-of-Ivan does not even now fully realize what the class struggle is all about. They are bent upon feverish proletarianization and industrialization of all Russians-including peasants and Kulaks. Having taxed the town capitalist out of existence, they would do the same with the rural "Fist." Against this policy the Peasant President of Russia stands firm, patient and unalterable. Recently he said: "The Government of the Soviet Union must not and does not aim to crush the richer...
...TIME, Jan. 28). Banished is Leiba Bronstein, called "Leon Trotsky" (TIME, Jan. 30). Today Red Russia is dominated by a Dictator more egotistical than even Masaryk, more ruthless than even Kemal. He is Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Because his inflexible will is like tempered metal, the great Lenin called him "Stalin." meaning "Steel." When the eleventh Red Birthday was celebrated. Comrade Citizens rejoiced, gamboled and swigged vodka*-but Stalin remained as usual coldly, inscrutably by his own fireside, never addressing the mob by radio, never overwhelmed with public adulation, never interviewed, scarcely recognized on his infrequent rides about Moscow...
...your issue Aug. 27 page 16 you give Josef Stalin's correct name as "Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili." Will you, if you can, please give the secret of the pronunciation of his name? D. H. JOHNSON