Word: theoretician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Joseph Revai, 61, Hungarian Communist zealot and wily theoretician, Minister of People's Culture (1949-53), who provided ideology for Hungary's Stalinist Boss Matyas Rakosi and promoted the fierce attack on Cardinal Mindszenty and other religious leaders, skipped to Russia when the 1956 revolt began but returned as soon as it was over to help execute the revolutionaries; in Budapest, Hungary...
Into London, in response to a longstanding invitation from a group of British Laborite backbenchers, flew a high-powered Soviet parliamentary delegation headed by gaunt, shock-haired Mikhail Suslov, 56, top Stalinist theoretician. He chucked babies under the chin, watched the House of Commons in action, and laid the inevitable wreath on the Highgate grave of Karl Marx. But his real interest was in long, private discussions with top Laborites Hugh Gaitskell...
...dislike of ceremony and his wish to "concentrate his energies on dealing with questions of the direction of policy" were the apparent reasons for his stepping down as chairman of the nation. Nonetheless, he had suffered a severe setback. The man who fancies himself the greatest living Communist theoretician was retreating from his boast of achieving true Communism ("To each according to his need") ahead of Russia, which had a 30-year head start and is still far from achieving it. Retreating from its great leap forward, the Central Party's resolution used the words gradual and gradually...
...Weak Soviet policy was responsible for the Hungarian revolution and the trouble in Poland." Not having been afraid of differing from Stalin, Mao has never hesitated to differ from the Johnny-come-latelys now in authority in Moscow. The Russians officially proclaim Mao to be "a major Marxist-Leninist theoretician,'' but his writings are not required reading among Russian party members, and his major pronouncements are dutifully printed without endorsement or criticism. An embarrassed silence greets Mao's current claim that his people's communes will bring true Communism to China in the foreseeable future, since...
Secondly, the austere and decisive Presidency of the Republic is more a theoretician's dream than a practical remedy. Should the "national arbiter" refuse to accept the resignation of a cabinet whenever the Premier has not been overthrown by a motion of no confidence, even though Parliament has made the Premier's life impossible, or should the President dissolve the Assembly whenever it has paralyzed the government, then a move which the President might interpret as a pure act of arbitration "designed to insure the normal functioning of the institutions" will inevitably become a hot political issue...