Word: titoism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...leadership, Gomulka is an irascible, puritanical man who hates conviviality and chitchat; he has strictly forbidden his aides to publicize his private life-which is largely given over to swimming, volley ball and his Russian-Jewish wife Zofja. Like Hungary's Kadar, Gomulka was arrested in 1951 for Titoism, but unlike Kadar he refused to crack despite three years' confinement. Reinstated as First Party Secretary in Poland's near revolution in 1956, he defied Khrushchev's threat to turn Soviet troops loose on Warsaw and granted his people considerable economic and social freedom. But as Poland...