After World War II, the Stalinist regimes installed in Eastern Europe were all stamped with a similarly imposing and inhumane Stalinist architecture.
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It was a puppet state of Russia, but those days are gone, but it&aposs still a Stalinist regime, it&aposs a puppet state of China and China is becoming more Stalinist under Xi and more Mao-like, Stalinist, whatever you want to call it.
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This is not Stalinist Russia where people become non-persons. . . .
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Apply the term "useful idiots" in a modern non-Stalinist version.
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It happened in Stalinist Russia, and it happened in Maoist China.
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Stalinist Russia and Maoist China didn't evolve out of social democracies.
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These are post-Stalinist, post-1956 uprising times, but the Stalinist party is still the dominant power in the village, and both the death of Stalin and the failure of the revolution have passed the village by.
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No one should expect the world's most Stalinist regime to change overnight.
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We're going down the same road as Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia.
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The first sentenced him to prison, the second to a Stalinist gulag.
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More recently, Zimbabwe's economy was destroyed by the Stalinist policies of Robert Mugabe.
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A grand Stalinist-era construction, once the town's cultural palace, now stands deserted.
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In 2000, I had a choice between a nationalist and a post-Stalinist.
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And I'm not talking about Stalinist Russia, which Sanders did and does condemn.
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Stalinist purges and made comparisons—because irony truly is dead—to the Nazis.
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That's a conviction rate that would make Stalinist Russia or Communist China proud.
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Along the road are grand Stalinist buildings, constructed for members of the Soviet elite.
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Another Labour MP followed the next day, labelling Mr Corbyn and his allies Stalinist.
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"It's an unreconstructed Stalinist dictatorship," says Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch, an NGO.
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If a Stalinist-inspired leader understands one thing, it is the use of force.
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Loznitsa pieced together the film from footage of a Stalinist show trial from 1930.
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NICHOLAS I and STALINIST were added to the mix because of the Russian investigation.
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Nor did other scholars, like Hannah Arendt, who instead characterize Stalinist Russia as totalitarianism.
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My Dad, however, associates communism with Stalinist Russia – and thus associates it with totalitarianism.
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Tehran uses religious arguments, anti-imperialist nationalism and neo-Stalinist repression to ensure compliance.
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This is not what Stalinist art was (or is) supposed to have looked like.
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Many hold deeply regressive, even Stalinist views, but nonetheless tend to be formidable and committed.
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In 1990s North Korea's Stalinist, quasi-feudal rulers rode out a mass famine without falling.
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He tried it with North Korea, and the Stalinist state still has its nuclear weapons.
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Kim has used violent Stalinist-style purges viciously to control rivals in his corrupt regime.
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Among the hulking Stalinist blocks of Warsaw's city center, skyscrapers—Axa, Deloitte, MetLife—shot up.
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The pairing of late Stalinist anti-Semitism with Hitler's extermination of the Jews was devastating.
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Politics seems to present two ways forward, both decidedly non-Stalinist forms of authoritarian collectivism.
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THE grey Stalinist blocks, potholed roads and intimidating communist-era plazas hardly suggest a hipster hotspot.
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A neo-Stalinist crackdown on modern art, literature and music was felt soon after the confrontation.
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The government's determination to improve academic productivity is creating a Stalinist bureaucracy of "academic auditors" who cannot distinguish between make-work articles and genuine research, and its desire to open up access to higher education is creating a second Stalinist bureaucracy in the Office for Fair Access.
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Cuba has been propped up by petrodollars from Venezuela, another failed neo-Stalinist state in Latin America.
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"They are behind the bespoke arrests and Stalinist intimidation tactics, like prosecution of family members", Gofdman adds.
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There have been rumors of Stalinist-like purges in other districts, and he's worried he'll be next.
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" He distinctly remembered Cohn-Bendit confronting Louis Aragon, the Communist poet, and calling him a "Stalinist lowlife.
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Moreover, the USA defies the very values it claims to uphold by arming a Stalinist terrorist organization.
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Millions now know that "enemy of the people" was a Soviet-era threat used by Stalinist thugs.
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Pyongyang used these claims to justify North Korea's large military, its nuclear weapons program, and its Stalinist dictatorship.
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His worst punishments were expulsion from university for praising an anti-Stalinist novel, or media scoldings by hardliners.
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GOP ads depict the agency as a neo-Stalinist ministry that is the natural enemy of American consumers.
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In January, Flake accused Trump of using Stalinist language and promoting global instability with his criticism of the media.
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MAXIM SURAIKIN A self-described "Leninist-Stalinist," the 39-year-old wants to revive the USSR, per the BBC.
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The generations shaped by Stalinist terror and Brezhnevite stasis were now giving way to a younger, more confident cohort.
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Socialist Realism allowed the Stalinist ideology to control the supposedly conscious decision-making mind through domination of the subconscious.
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Some 20,000 Lithuanians were killed in Stalinist purges and in Siberian camps, where a quarter million Lithuanians were deported.
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During the Stalinist repressions of the 21989s, the father was arrested, tortured and sent to Siberia, where he died.
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Nearly three-quarters of Americans are uneasy about the possibility of conflict with the Stalinist state, according to the survey.
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Russia was a close ally of Stalinist North Korea in Soviet days, but Lavrov made it clear times had changed.
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Following World War Two, Albania suffered from a debilitating communist revolution and devastating isolationism under the Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxja.
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If Donald Trump genuinely sympathizes with Kurds, then he should remember that the Stalinist terrorist organization PKK primarily targets Kurds.
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Arrested in 1939 by the Stalinist secret police and executed in 1940, he was granted posthumous official rehabilitation in 1954.
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During the Stalinist period after World War II, some 300,000 Lithuanians, largely intellectuals, were deported to Siberia; 50,000 never returned.
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The story is as intricate as any Russian novel, and the chapters on the Stalinist Terror are the most vivid.
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Her political affiliations later swung far to the left, though she and Mr. Del Fra were both strongly anti-Stalinist.
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It's also a well-kept example of Stalinist architecture, with building facades completely covered in porcelain tiles manufactured in Meissen.
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From Kim Jong Un's perspective, his world is a Stalinist world largely frozen in time since the 1950-53 Korean War.
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The hatred for Christmas in the former USSR became even more extreme during the leftist, Stalinist era between 1929 and 1939.
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The Stalinist state continues to spurn six-nation nuclear talks and has tested three nuclear devices during the Obama administration's tenure.
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Despite all these facts, the US insistently arming and supporting a Stalinist-Marxist terrorist organization is, in many ways, quite shocking.
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For example, Mr. Kasuka, the Czech Stalinist, has appeared regularly in Russian media as a commentator on Czech affairs and geopolitics.
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A troika of life-size mannequins at a table, dressed carefully in regulation Stalinist purge-wear, sentences people to the gulag.
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The formerly Stalinist states of Eastern Europe profited enormously from joining the European Union following the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
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In Stalinist Russia, the government perceived imagination as a dangerous tool for change that should be stifled among the general population.
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The idea is to make North Korea's economy something closer to China's than the pseudo-Stalinist disaster it's been for several decades.
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The group has embodied a vaguely Stalinist aesthetic since the 80s so convincingly that North Korea welcomed them to Pyongyang in 2015.
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Its chances depend on it communicating a genuine sense of contrition for its crimes, and abandoning the Stalinist dogmatism that few share.
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The U.S. Senate has voted to tighten sanctions on North Korea, while Japan has also announced new sanctions on the Stalinist nation.
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Khrushchev had been trying to reform the Stalinist system, but Brezhnev led the country back into a period of protracted bureaucratic stagnation.
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These days, debate is being stifled on university campuses in the name of political correctness, a term coined by the Stalinist regime.
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Biologists killed during Stalinist purges were killed because their lives coincided with Stalin's rule, not exactly because of their anti-Lysenko views.
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Few characters are spared deformation, corruption or destruction by the totalitarian state, Nazi and Stalinist, or by the autonomous violence of war.
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Sakharov's essay, which coincided with the Prague Spring, helped energize democratic dissident movements that were just budding in a post-Stalinist world.
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They will write about Stalinist playwright Lillian Hellman in tones of sympathy and understanding they never extend to film director Elia Kazan.
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It was reminiscent of Leninist or Stalinist propaganda, wrote the journalist Dmitry Kolezev in an opinion piece for Znak, a news website.
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Marton charts his transformation from an idealist to Stalinist hard-liner, tracing his ideology to what he saw as failures of capitalism.
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If Medicare-for-all were some kind of neo-Stalinist ploy, then Canada and much of Western Europe would be totalitarian nightmares.
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Having grown up in an oppressive Stalinist society, he worried that officials would somehow prevent him from leaving again, Dr. Norman said.
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Though he survived the Stalinist terror himself, he fell foul of the authorities in 1946, and was expelled from the Soviet Writer's Union.
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Soviet censors decreed that the novel's unflinching comparisons between the barbarism of Nazi and Stalinist regimes would make it unpublishable for 250 years.
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That is not because any of them trust the North Korean regime, a blend of Stalinist personality cult and blood-soaked feudal dynasty.
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Among the most vocal were members of the small anti-Stalinist Marxist party known as the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista, the POUM.
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North Korea remains a Stalinist-fascist horror show, one that bears little resemblance to anything that has ever existed outside of its borders.
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The concentrated spectacle, which Debord attributes to totalitarian and "Stalinist" regimes, is implemented through the cult of personality and the use of force.
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Nevertheless, to the uninitiated it was still pretty impressive in the way that a Stalinist vanity tower in an Eastern European capital is.
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In 1940, during a visit with Mr. Trotsky, a Stalinist agent who had infiltrated his inner circle sunk a pickax into his skull.
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Unfortunately torture and political imprisonment have been used through much of history, whether we're talking about the Spanish Inquisition or the Stalinist gulag.
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In Budapest, he covered the 1949 show trial of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, who was convicted of treason for opposing Stalinist repression in Hungary.
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They may well believe that a Japanese criminal conviction is little closer to true justice than the result of some Stalinist show trial.
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" Mr. Sulzberger cautioned, though, that rescinding the prize might evoke the "Stalinist practice to airbrush purged figures out of official records and histories.
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He excoriates the judiciary, independent law enforcement and the free press — which he has called "the enemy of the people," a Stalinist phrase.
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When the Stalinist purges begin, he doesn't let loyalty sway him—he gets the hell out of there and writes a book about it.
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Eventually, to his dismay, the judge gave up on his little Stalinist project and confessed that I could not, by his standards, be rehabilitated.
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Some of them pointed out that the recent Russian originator of the testament-forgery thesis, on whose work Kotkin relied, was an unapologetic Stalinist.
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He died in Mexico City's Coyoacan neighborhood a day after a Stalinist spy delivered a crushing blow to his head with an ice ax.
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Ingraham returned to the show Monday after a planned one-week vacation, slamming "Stalinist" liberals who she claimed were attempting to silence conservative voices.
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Short of funds, Mr. Usovsky looked to Mr. Kasuka, the Czech Stalinist, as a low-cost project that could keep him in the game.
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"Stalin's Heirs," published in 603, also stirred Russians, appearing at a time when they feared that Stalinist-style repression might return to the country.
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Moscow also inspired the neo-Stalinist Triumph Astana, home to offices, shops and apartments and a dead ringer for the Triumph Palace in Moscow.
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The count's sedate life provides an ironic counterpoint to the grim doings of Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, most of which occur out of sight.
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Belize, the play's conscience, is unsparing in his response, accusing Louis of "transforming [himself] into an arrogant, sexual-political Stalinist-slash-racist flag-waving thug".
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To think that a president would render a clearance decision based solely on an opposing political viewpoint is reminiscent of Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany.
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LEVIN: Congressman DeSantis, do you really think that Kim Jong Un, the third generation of the Stalinist regime is prepared to completely denuclearize North Korea?
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On a near daily basis, the president condemns the media, occasionally descending to the Stalinist-Hitlerite insult "enemy of the people" to attack the press.
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The first flights took place in the late 1940s of Stalinist Russia, during the first evolution of the Soviet versions of the V-2 rockets.
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In North Korea, nothing carries so much weight as the words of Kim Jong Un, third-generation leader of the world's only hereditary Stalinist regime.
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There, Stalinist skyscrapers, behemoths and monuments were built to dominate the surrounding cityscape, to change the course of history and recenter the site of power.
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It is an uncomfortable and perhaps uncomfortably suggestive fact that this most universal of twentieth-century poets was also a notorious Communist and indeed Stalinist.
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Honecker was an ardent Stalinist whose hatred of fascism and zeal for Marxism in the postwar German Democratic Republic was said to rival her husband's.
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He even ends up creating a Gender Studies Center at his university in Perm—a city that was once home to a Stalinist concentration camp.
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With instincts that recall the Stalinist intelligentsia of the 1940s, they mix the logical elasticity of the sophist with the unflinching loyalty of the toady.
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He also underestimated Mr. Kim's conviction that his nuclear arsenal is his only insurance policy to buoy one of the last family-controlled Stalinist regimes.
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And then there is the regime's model of neo-Stalinist repression, replete with imprisonment of dissidents, assassinations, torture, forced television confessions, censorship and state propaganda.
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Once considered an implacable Stalinist, Raul Castro is said to have become more pragmatic after the Soviet collapse pushed Cuba to the brink of economic chaos.
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She referred to some of the movement's methods as Stalinist, singling out the British writer Juliet Mitchell's relation of Maoist practice to the consciousness-raising session.
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Last month the government declared Memorial a "foreign agent"—once a Stalinist term for traitors, now a legal classification intended to throttle troublesome civil-society groups.
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Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's semi-Stalinist dictator, declared with more enthusiasm than coherence that it would "open the broad avenues of sovereignty and friendship between our peoples".
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The stasis was symbolised by the retention as second party secretary (behind only Raúl) of José Ramón Machado Ventura, an 85-year-old Stalinist ideological enforcer.
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Similar memorial events were being held in other parts of the former Soviet Union to mark an unofficial day of remembrance for victims of Stalinist repression.
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Unlike his father, who was a military officer before he was a Stalinist homunculus, Kim II was a PR man before he was the heir apparent.
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Kadare's lifelong theme and the context for much of his work is the four-decade dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, whose grotesque, paranoid, Stalinist regime slaughtered thousands.
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But Russia hasn't been communist in decades, and it is Trump, not Sanders, who fawns over Putin and other despots, including Stalinist madman Kim Jong-un.
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Enver Hoxha, a hard-line Stalinist, created a repressive apparatus that outlasted his death in 21944 and continued right up until the regime's fall in 21991.
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"A man who runs gulags all over North Korea and absolutely runs the last Stalinist state on the planet an honorable man?" he added of Kim.
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Trump resorts to the slogan "fake news" and the Stalinist appellation "enemy of the people" when he doesn't like the stories that are written about him.
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For President Trump: "The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia" by Andrei Lankov, the best guide to understanding the Kim regime.
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Patterns emerge, especially a focus on utility over all else, but with frequent references to Russian folk art, Soviet constructivism, and a Stalinist take on Art Deco.
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Its main belligerent was the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Stalinist rural army that outlived the cold war by turning to drug-dealing and extortion.
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But as far as we know, from the 1950s to the 1970s its economy outgrew capitalist South Korea, as a Stalinist state marshalled all resources towards production.
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Whether in Stalinist Russia or George Orwell's "1984," totalitarian governments want to eradicate erotic love so that the only legitimate form of love will be comradely love.
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Celebrity Communist, champagne Stalinist, poet of the people who owned three houses—the Neruda of his last two decades is easy to make fun of, or worse.
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Jorgo Sheka said it was taken care as a cultural shrine under late dictator Enver Hoxha, who was a hardline Stalinist, but has been neglected since then.
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Ingraham went on a planned vacation the week following the controversy, returning last week with a segment claiming that "Stalinist" liberals were trying to silence conservative voices.
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Towles's novel spans a number of difficult decades, but no Bolshevik, Stalinist or bureaucrat can dampen the Metropol's life; World War II only briefly forces a pause.
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It is an extraordinary transition from the horrors of totalitarianism under the Stalinist regime just decades before and it is singularly the work-in-progress of Putin.
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When the Communist Party of Mexico refused to participate in the assassination of Mr. Trotsky, carried out in 1940 by a Stalinist agent, it sealed its fate.
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Under Kim Jong-un, North Korea remained dedicated to juche, the path of self-sufficiency, while mercilessly rehashing Stalinist formats abandoned practically everywhere else in the world.
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Its misfortunes are not difficult to explain: Unlike Life and Fate, Stalingrad was published in the Soviet Union under Stalin and gained a reputation as Stalinist hackwork.
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Outside powers then could seek to gradually wean North Korea away from those remaining aspects of its Stalinist system, as was done with Vietnam over the years.
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FRONT PAGE An article on Tuesday about President Trump's overtures to North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong-un, misstated when North Korea was established as a Stalinist state.
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Mr. Duda argues that the Soviet agreement with Germany paved the way to war, and that Mr. Putin is reviving Stalinist propaganda as a modern-day cudgel.
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No sitting American president has met with a North Korean leader since Mr. Kim's grandfather Kim Il-sung established a Stalinist state there before the Korean War.
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The elder Kim's father, North Korea's revolutionary founder Kim Il-sung, developed a Stalinist cult of personality that saw him and his son worshiped as demi-gods.
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IN 21 WORKERS in what was then East Germany protested against their Soviet overlords on Karl-Marx-Allee, a monumental boulevard in Berlin lined with Stalinist apartment blocks.
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The result is a wall of 40 fresh images: passengers on a trolley bus; boys on a diving board; a Stalinist-style statue glimpsed over a girl's shoulder.
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"We can't get into this sort of Stalinist exercise of trying to white out or obliterate or blank out parts of our history," Turnbull told radio station 3AW.
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The "blackout" metaphorically describes the historical wipeout of all radical, anti-Stalinist Italian political groups and parties, but also refers to the 1977 New York City electrical blackout.
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In other accounts, Saigon and its partner in Washington valiantly defend a flawed but democratically minded South Vietnam from Communist forces determined to subject it to Stalinist tyranny.
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Irena Haiduk materializes the fictional spaces in Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, imbuing them with her own imagination and creating the alternative realities Bulgakov's Stalinist government so feared.
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Mr. Duda argues that the Soviet agreement with Germany paved the way to war, and that Mr. Putin is reviving old Stalinist propaganda as a modern-day cudgel.
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Peter Hain, a former Northern Ireland minister and Labour lawmaker in the House of Lords, Britain's unelected upper house, accused Corbyn of carrying out of a "Stalinist purge".
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There was the retired intelligence officer and self-described Stalinist in Moscow who strongly suggested that during his long career he had murdered people at his government's behest.
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But when Mao Zedong was looking at how North Korea and the North Koreans were developing and Kim Il-sung and they were going to the old Stalinist ways.
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As the legacy of the USSR and its Stalinist excesses has faded from memory, capitalism had plenty of time and space to stretch its wings and make people suffer.
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He has spent many years, both in the West and in Russia, repairing and remounting Stalinist-era ballets featuring such things as heroic tractor drivers and dogs on bikes.
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But in Paris, understanding his work was endangered by a Stalinist turn of events, Shchukin bequeathed the collection to his wife and three surviving children in his last will.
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But the sudden escalation of the North Korean crisis, following the Stalinist state's launch of its most potent ever missile on Tuesday, takes the world across a dangerous threshold.
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When the poet Heberto Padilla was subjected to a Stalinist show trial, Vargas Llosa gathered several friends at his home in Barcelona to draft a public denunciation of Castro.
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For example, what is the common denominator between "socialist" regimes such as Stalinist Russia, Communist Cuba, or North Korea, and "fascist" regimes such as Mussolini's Italy or Hitler's Germany?
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Its authoritarian terrorism against its own citizens is as legendary as its Stalinist prison camps are notorious for starvation, beatings and summary executions of prisoners, some by artillery shelling.
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Speaking in their unmistakable North Korean accents, these women share often funny or tearful episodes of life in the famine-struck Stalinist state or their dangerous journeys for freedom.
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They can be cumbersome to use for treatment, and American scientists are late to the phage game: It was in Stalinist Georgia that much of the early research was done.
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In addition to these two paintings about theater and film during the Stalinist purges, the exhibition includes a number of paintings that seem to be influenced by 1940s film noir.
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Recent books have delved into East German propaganda posters and Stalinist architecture as well as apartment life, bus-stop design, children's books and store-window aesthetics in the Eastern bloc.
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The crash took place near Smolensk, western Russia, close to the place where Stalinist secret police forces shot some of the 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals they executed in 1940.
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Critics claim that, as a foreigner, Mr Ghosn has been singled out for treatment akin to a Stalinist show trial—right down to character assassination by a rabid press corps.
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However, the exponential use of social and digital media in political campaigns has single handedly created the largest communications channel of misinformation that the Continent has seen since Stalinist Russia.
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The movie is a half-hour succession of moldering apartment houses and massive factories, a place of faded splendor and industrial funk, populated by lonely Stalinist monuments and revolutionary ghosts.
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He said he feared being declared a "foreign agent," a revived Stalinist label that basically means "spy," and that is now being used to shutter dozens of civil society organizations.
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Communist authorities censored the "Man of Marble", angered by its portrayal of political corruption in the early 1950s Stalinist period, shown through the fall from grace of a Stakhanovite bricklayer.
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Romantic and Progressive: Stalinist Impressionism in Painting of the Baltic States in the 1940s–1950s continues at the Kumu Art Museum of Estonia (Valge 1, 10127 Tallinn, Estonia) through May 1.
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Some of the most rapturous of silent films were made by Alexander Dovzhenko, a Ukrainian director who worked in the Soviet Union and, during the sound era, bore Stalinist constraints stoically.
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This reading sees Bolshevism not as a strand of European socialist internationalism, but as a top-down perversion of Marxism that would lead inexorably to a "coup" and to Stalinist totalitarianism.
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This is nothing else except blackmail, and we do not give in to blackmail, and North Korea and the head of the North Korea Stalinist regime should not test this president.
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This suggests that, far from being a neo-Stalinist dystopia, the contemporary United States is a place where lots of people care about offending others and take care to avoid it.
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Even for clubby Washington, it could be a bad look to clink glasses for a woman who rode shotgun for a president who refers to the media with a Stalinist epithet.
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"Witch hunt" first became regular shorthand for government repression in the 1920s and '30s, when American newspapers covering events in the Soviet Union applied the label to Stalinist purges of dissenters.
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I also wanted at least one of my sons to see the Stalinist-style state before it disappears so that they can understand what China was like before they lived there.
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Around 150 people were killed, thousands were arrested, and intellectuals, journalists and politicians were tried in Stalinist-type mass proceedings, many of them forced to make humiliating public confessions of wrongdoing.
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To simplify, the hereditary Stalinist regime of the Kim dynasty wants America to break its formal defence alliances with Japan and South Korea, and to remove all military assets from South Korea.
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Those looking for disagreement among the legislators gathered in the Great Hall of the People, a Stalinist building in the heart of Beijing, had to squint to find even the faintest glimmer.
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The Communist Party of Russia has claimed that the national team need "a Stalinist mobilisation" to help them find "mental, physical, hard strength" after losing 3-0 to Wales on Monday evening.
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True internal pushback against the Soviet regime began to emerge only in the 1960s, at the moment when the political temperature inside Russia was moving from post-Stalinist thaw back to chilly.
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Described by activists as "Stalinist," the law criminalizes criticism of the government and forces internet companies to store data locally and hand over user information to authorities without the need for a warrant.
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Trump, for instance, praised China last week for sending back a fleet of coal ships to North Korea, in line with international sanctions on the Stalinist state's exports adopted during the Obama administration.
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In 1996, his "Mask of Sorrow," a monument to the victims of the Stalinist purges, was installed in the Siberian coastal city of Magadan, a dispersal point for the camps of the gulag.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday that calls to replace or modify statues of English colonialists, including explorer Captain James Cook, were tantamount to a "Stalinist" rewrite of history.
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Consequently, criticism of these settlements has spanned the spectrum, from free market legal expert Richard Epstein, who described them as reading "like the confessions of a Stalinist purge trial of corporations," to Sen.
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But he also emphasized that it should be Weinberg's music, rather than any mythologization of his life as a Jewish exile in Stalinist Russia, that earns the composer his rightful place in history.
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They have advanced both religious arguments rooted in claims of Islamic authenticity and secular arguments rooted in anti-imperial nationalism — and they have adopted a policy of neo-Stalinist repression to ensure obedience.
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General Walter Krivitsky, a defector who had once directed Soviet military intelligence in Western Europe and whose revelations about Stalinist repression had made headlines, was found dead in a Washington, D.C., hotel room.
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There have been direct contacts with Pyongyang through a channel at UN meetings between officials from the two sides in Beijing, and post-presidential missions to the Stalinist state by Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
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Back in his Stalinist dystopia, Mr Kim has peddled a conflicting but equally stirring story, says a scholar from a Chinese government-sponsored think-tank who travels to North Korea several times a year.
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Memorial, an organisation set up in the late 1980s to exhume the crimes of Stalinism and the Soviet state, has been declared a "foreign agent", a stigmatising label dug up from the Stalinist past.
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The world's best space industry that won the space race decades ago is now trapped in a death vortex of wasted tax dollars, a rigid Stalinist business model and a rapidly increasing military vulnerability.
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The Cultural Revolution, in which perhaps a million or more people were killed, ranks among the 20th century's convulsions of terror that have included the Stalinist terror and the genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda.
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From the perspective of a Stalinist-Confucian lens, a ruling DPRK leader negotiating with a former US leader is fine for certain purposes, as was done involving former President Bill Clinton several years ago.
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And his intervention also appears likely to undermine what has been his successful effort to get world powers to line up alongside the US to impose themes punitive sanctions yet on the Stalinist North.
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The only abstainers are the few remaining Marxists (mainly in the history department, though we have a few in English and sociology, too) who like to argue that the whole process is fundamentally Stalinist.
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His 1977 film "Man of Marble" was censored by Communist officials angered by its portrayal of political corruption in the early 1950s Stalinist period, shown through the fall from grace of a Stakhanovite bricklayer.
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In that film, a student filmmaker, memorably played by Krystyna Janda, is trying to find out what became of a bricklayer who in the Stalinist '50s had won national fame for his enthusiastic productivity.
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The stadium was first opened in 1957, and its historical facade — adorned with semicolumns, bas-reliefs, sculptures and stucco details in the Stalinist, neoclassical style — was eventually given protected landmark status, surviving multiple renovations.
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Poland and Lithuania, for example, have accused Putin of reviving Stalinist-era tropes when he's claimed the Soviet Union saved the world from Nazism and framed the Polish people as participating in the Holocaust.
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We are not experiencing anything that resembles Stalinist state terror, but we are living through a period of mental hyperinflation: Ideas, prospects and spectacles go from unimaginable to ordinary in weeks or even days.
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An opinion poll in 550 found that 21991% of the population expected Mr Putin to return Russia to the status of a great and respected country Mr Putin was neither a liberal nor a Stalinist.
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His portrait and his famous saying, "Russia has only two allies: its army and its navy," greet visitors to a revamped museum of Russian history at VDNKH, a prime example of Stalinist architecture in Moscow.
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It will be nearly as difficult for Obama to ignore North Korea, with the Stalinist state already threatening to provoke the first crisis of the next president's administration with its accelerating missile and nuclear development.
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Once dubbed "L'Emmerdeuse" - the pain in the neck - by former leader Jacques Chirac, she was expelled from the management of Sarkozy's Les Republicains conservative party in December, a move she denounced as a "Stalinist" purge.
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Used as propaganda and often denigrated as such, it can be interpreted more subtly, its crude bombast sardonically indicting Stalinist as well as Nazi totalitarianism, its pathos expressing private emotions forbidden by the Soviet state.
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MOSCOW — Moscow officials have abruptly withdrawn permission for the annual commemoration of the victims of Stalinist repression that has been held at a memorial stone near the headquarters of the Russian intelligence services since 2007.
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While most observers agreed that the Soviet Union had been doomed, Alexander Prokhanov, a devoted Stalinist and ideologist of state nationalism, said Russia was resurrecting itself as a symbiosis of the Tsarist and the Soviet empires.
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They include Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an ageing nationalist known for pugilistic outbursts; Pavel Grudinin, a mustachioed Stalinist leading the Communist Party; and Ksenia Sobchak, a socialite-cum-journalist attempting to carry the mantle of the liberal opposition.
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In a twist of irony, she is played by Agata Kulesza, who starred as the steely Jewish aunt and former Stalinist prosecutor in "Ida"; her latest role has all the grit but none of the glamour.
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Instead, Washington is dealing with a Stalinist authoritarian regime that has been standing for three generations, whose ultimate goal is to drive the U.S. military out of South Korea and achieve reunification under its own terms.
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The word "killed" has never appeared in any official documents released from the Soviet side, according to Nikita Petrov, a historian with the Memorial organization in Moscow who specializes in the Stalinist era and Serov himself.
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The latest challenge from North Korea also compromises hopes that Trump's Asia tour, which was hailed as a stunning success by his White House, had done anything to defuse the worsening showdown with the Stalinist state.
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This, the last hangover of Stalinist totalitarianism, must be the society for which Trump yearns as, remote control in hand, he wanders the corridors of the White House searching for Melania or a late-night burger.
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Mr. Hochschild likens the rusting hulks of the sugar mills that he visited in the Caribbean to the remnants of the Russian gulags where millions of anonymous people were put to death during the Stalinist era.
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BERLIN — If the music of Dmitri Shostakovich chronicles political repression in Stalinist Russia, that of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, his contemporary and close friend, is a testimony to the horror that swept through Europe in the 21th century.
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After removing his cousin as Crown Prince and making himself the heir apparent, MBS also set out to remove all other possible challenges to his total grip on power using a Stalinist playbook, minus the gulags.
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A tiny handful of others — including atomic spies Julius Rosenberg, David Greenglass, Harry Gold and Morton Sobell — betrayed America's most important military secrets to Stalinist Russia and did incalculable damage to the country and the world.
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It is fascinating to see the works of Stalinist impressionists in other rooms of the museum that are devoted to early modern, modern, and contemporary art, demonstrating the porous nature of the ideological framework of official art.
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Certainly Mandelstam, who lived through the Stalinist terror of the 1930s, and whose husband, Osip — the greatest Russian poet of the last century — died in a labor camp, would have understood what is occurring in Pakistan today.
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Donald Trump and other Republicans have worked hard to label these progressive proposals—whether they come from democratic socialist Bernie Sanders or the avowed capitalist Elizabeth Warren—as proof of a quasi-Stalinist conspiracy on the left.
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The crackdown on independent art began in 1932 — during the first wave of Stalinist reforms — in order to create a single artists union which in effect, subdued the whole of artistic production in service of the party.
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TIRANA (Reuters) - Nexhmije Hoxha, the widow of Albania's Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha, died on Tuesday aged 99, her son said, having fallen dramatically from grace following his death but remaining the staunchest defender of his isolationist regime.
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Mr. Glazer arrived at City College in 1940, near the end of the Great Depression and at a time when the all-male, predominantly Jewish student body was largely divided into antagonistic leftist factions — Stalinist, Trotskyist, Socialist.
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But at the same time, the court took a chapter from the Stalinist past, ordering that Mr. Dmitriev be sent to Moscow for psychiatric tests while also asking for a new review of the photographs by other experts.
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Anyone who can't tell the difference between an ordinary Bernie Sanders supporter and a Stalinist revolutionary, or between Donald Trump's average voter and a Nazi, is either willfully ignorant or needs to get out of the house more.
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Nothing is trivial in the same choreographer's "Shostakovich Trilogy" (American Ballet Theater, 2013); its men and women are all overshadowed by the melancholy oppression of a world implicitly set in Stalinist Russia, but each woman is vividly distinct.
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Russia's best-known human rights activist, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, whose life spanned from the Stalinist purges of the 1930s to post-Soviet Russia under the restrictive rule of President Vladimir Putin, was honored in a memorial in Moscow on Tuesday.
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A few even saw the North's Stalinist state as more legitimate than South Korea's young democracy, tainted as it was by the original sin of American-backed dictatorship (Ms Park's late father was the longest-serving of the strongmen).
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Kotkin proposes a series of interlocking arguments to explain the Stalinist outcome: the conspiratorial rigidity of Bolshevism; the state's total domination of life in the absence of private property; the peculiar personality of Stalin; and the pressures of geopolitics.
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This gives the US an opportunity to create major systemic change in North Korea, including ending the hostility brought on by the archaic Stalinist command economy and social system, which prevent normal dealing with the rest of the world.
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An unexpected series of threats from the enclosed Stalinist state threatened to nix next month's planned summit in Singapore between Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and sink White House hopes of a spectacular foreign policy success.
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But Pyongyang couldn't afford to alienate either of them by seeming to align itself more with one than the other; as a result, it couldn't fully adopt the Soviet Union's Stalinist ideology, nor could it take up China's Maoism.
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A committed avant-garde painter who tells his students that art is about an individual way of seeing rather than about rote reproduction of a collectively agreed-upon reality, Strzeminski collides with the latest modes demanded by Stalinist rule.
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Young people have been far too passive about the degree to which their lives are being controlled by commissars of social engineering who pay lip service to liberalism but who are at root Stalinist autocrats who despise and suppress individualism.
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Between Frankfurter Tor in Friedrichshain and Alexanderplatz — just under two miles — the 300-foot-wide street is lined with monumental, wedding cakelike, Stalinist-style structures, built to be "workers' palaces," a place for East Germany to showcase the glories of Socialism.
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He was no golden child of the literary nomenklatura, but rather a genuine product of communist meritocracy, born in Siberia in a family savaged by Stalinist purges, who scrabbled his way to stardom by penning verses for a sports newspaper.
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Its content reflected the lively, even troublesome, spirit of the post-Stalinist 1950s and 1960s, but even that could be tolerated, within limits, especially as that toleration proved that the Soviet system was not as monolithic as its critics claimed.
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The weeks-long campaign came near the end of the Korean war of 1950-0003, which began when the Stalinist regime of Kim Il Sung invaded the pro-American south and which eventually drew in millions of Chinese and UN forces.
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One is an academic history of this peculiar corner of the Russian philosophical landscape, involving tragic figures such as Lev Gumilev, consigned to the Gulag chiefly for the crime of being the son of Anna Akhmatova, a great anti-Stalinist poet.
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The US has put a freeze on travel for its citizens in recent months, following the death of American tourist Otto Warmbier, who was imprisoned in the repressive Stalinist country, ostensibly for attempting to steal a propaganda poster from his hotel.
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Reports over the weekend that North Korea had taken steps to either step up or hide production of nuclear materials and missiles contradicted Trump's claims after his summit with Kim Jong Un that he had solved the Stalinist state's nuclear threat.
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" In the United States since then, Democratic politicians and the media have struggled to enter the minds of Trump voters, who are evidently enraged by the imposition of norms of political correctness that they see as enforced by "Stalinist orthodoxy.
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The fact that US declared PYD, the direct origin of the Stalinist terror Turkey has been fighting for years, as allies despite the warnings and demands of Turkey, brought deep issues with it and raised questions concerning the US-Turkey alliance.
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In 1932, the Natural History Museum pulled out of the country as Mongolia descended into Stalinist Communism, executing 30,000 intellectuals and Buddhist leaders, eradicating traditional garb, Mongolian vertical script and Khan as a symbol of national pride — all bourgeois indulgences.
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Christo eventually escaped the Stalinist-era regime to Paris, where he met Jeanne-Claude, beginning a lifelong artistic collaboration in 1961 until her death in 2009, creating temporary works that changed public space, usually on an extremely large and colorful scale.
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Vincent Canby, writing in The New York Times, captured Mr. Makavejev's sense of politics and the absurd when he described a central scene in which a Belgrade beautician and Reich admirer thaws an uptight Stalinist by giving him the perfect orgasm.
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It allowed Hoover to pretend that socialism was Stalinist tyranny tout court rather than the democratic movement that he had helped destroy in the United States earlier in the century, before the Bolshevik Revolution provided even the excuse of hysterical overreaction.
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While the lives of the rest of the family remained shrouded in mystery, Mr. Kim, the oldest of three known sons of Kim Jong-il, has been the closest thing the isolated Stalinist state has had to an international playboy.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian poet Evgeny Yevtushenko, a leading force in the brief post-Stalinist Soviet literary "thaw" of the 1960s, has died in the United States at the age of 85, TASS news agency reported on Saturday, citing a close friend.
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In novels such as "The Door" and "Iza's Ballad", intimate dramas are entangled with public upheavals: the repressive governments and Nazi occupation of the 1930s and 1940s; the sudden annihilation of Hungary's Jews; the soul-sapping compromises and betrayals of the Stalinist era.
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But with the arrival of the Cold War, the anti-Stalinist implications of his work became valuable for entirely new reasons and Orwell's version has become the iconic memoir of the war and the most-read book on the subject in any language.
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The March 2018 cover depicted Polish supermodels Małgosia Bela and Anja Rubrik posing in front of Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science, an eyesore of 21983s Stalinist architecture, with Bela leaning against an icon of Soviet automobile manufacturing, the hearse-like GAZ Volga.
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The US believed that they had secured a military ally in Syria in the fight against ISIS without ignoring that the PYD was a Stalinist terrorist organization that oppresses even its own people and not a legal democratic party as suggested by some.
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An initial payment of 210 euros ($2000) was offered for Mr. Kasuka, a penniless Czech Stalinist, to buy flags and other paraphernalia for a protest rally in Prague, the Czech capital, against the NATO alliance and the pro-Western government in Ukraine.
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The GOP campaign was on display at the recent CPAC conference, where participants decried efforts at restoring liberal democracy, promoting social and economic justice and saving the environment as, according to former Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka, a Stalinist plot to steal your hamburgers.
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The judge, who was born in the industrial city of Lodz in central Poland and raised in Warsaw, began his career in 1996 and quickly made a name for himself during trials of people who had committed grievous crimes during the Stalinist era.
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A photo-montage here by an unnamed Soviet photographer, made some time in the mid-1950s, portrays a dozen fur-hatted soldiers and women in head scarves grinning in front of the 600-foot-tall Stalinist wedding cake that is Moscow State University.
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A photo-montage here by an unnamed Soviet photographer, made some time in the mid-1950s, portrays a dozen fur-hatted soldiers and women in head scarves grinning in front of the 600-foot-tall Stalinist wedding cake that is Moscow State University.
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When questioned about stories that seemed to allude to Stalinist conformism and paranoia, Lem said the same thing that Liu says about geopolitical interpretations of his trilogy—that he was not writing a veiled assessment of the present but merely making up stories.
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The big question is whether the new restrictions against Pyongyang's exports of iron, coal, seafood, and access to international banks and trade, are fully implemented and actually work more effectively than the multiple rounds of previous sanctions imposed on the Stalinist regime over decades.
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Speaking with Komisarov clarified a lot about the context of the exhibition, such as the role of Pop Art in official Estonian art after the end of the Stalinist period, and the birth of Soviet hyperrealist painting in Estonia, which was later established in Russia.
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In a sparkling, unexpected digression—there are many such in this book—he mentions Dick's fascination with the Stalinist show trials, in which the victims were forced to deny what they had believed their whole lives, and to denounce their earlier selves as unrecognizable monsters.
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In fact, the original mythological tomb, likely dynamited during Stalinist purges against "religious superstition," was described by J. Theodore Bent in The Contemporary Review in 1896 as a popular Christian Armenian shrine, although other observers have reported that Muslims, too, considered the site sacred.
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Ings capably recounts how Soviet science became a laughingstock and often a human tragedy, but he doesn't explain how Stalinist technology produced colossal successes, too, from the creation of Tupolev and MiG planes to the best designed tank in the world, the T-34.
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China will undoubtedly seek to extract maximum advantage from its participation in the global economy but the logic of totalitarianism under an absolute dictator and supposedly revivified party enforcing ideological and economic control betokens return to the past of Maoism and its Stalinist Soviet cognate.
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Zhores A. Medvedev, the Soviet biologist, writer and dissident who was declared insane, confined to a mental institution and stripped of his citizenship in the 1970s after attacking a Stalinist pseudoscience, died on Thursday at his home in London, where he had lived for decades.
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If they do not deliver the reform by Thursday, NATO member Albania will lose the chance to open negotiations this year on joining the EU - a transformative step for a country that was virtually cut off from the outside world during decades of Stalinist rule until 1990.
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Although the revelations of the crimes of Stalinist totalitarianism diminished the luster of the Russian Revolution in the 400s, the surprising victory of the Communists in Cuba revived the revolutionary spirit in Latin America, inspiring guerrilla movements that alarmed military regimes allied to the United States.
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As Gorbachev's attempt to create a more humane (but still Communist) Soviet Union foundered on the two-pronged resistance of conservatives and Yeltsinite liberals, Alexander Yakovlev, Seryozha's grandfather, was appointed chair of a Rehabilitation Commission, devoted to documenting the horrors of the Stalinist era and helping its victims.
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For a quarter century, American politicians and diplomats have been nudging, coaxing and occasionally bribing -- with grants and other forms of official aid -- little Albania to do what it needs to do to get free of its Stalinist past and, once and for all, emerge as a normal western nation.
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Karoly Makk, a leading Hungarian director who was honored at the Cannes Film Festival in 22014 for "Love," the story of one family's survival under his country's repressive Stalinist rule, then nominated four years later for an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, for "Cats' Play," died on Aug. 2104.
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Warning on North Korea In the interview with the Financial Times, Trump struck a tough bargaining position, warning, "if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will," in remarks that could hint at a tougher economic sanctions policy that China might oppose or even military action against the Stalinist state.
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This is the tale told by Romantic and Progressive: Stalinist Impressionism in Painting of the Baltic States in the 210127s–21s at the Kumu Art Museum of Estonia, which focuses on the region that is adjacent to Russia but was under German influence for centuries, then occupied by Soviet forces until 1990.
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"Unfortunately, I am sorry to say this, but President Putin consciously, certainly, spreads historical lies and obviously does it with an agenda because he is trying in this way to erase the responsibility of Stalinist Russia for the start of World War II together with Nazi Germany," Mr. Duda told Israeli state television.
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The overall effect was to draw clear but subtle connections between Nazi Germany and Stalinist horrors without offending the Soviet Union, except to note its people's sacrifices during World War II. Jane Taubman, a retired professor of Russian at Amherst College, said that the documentary's target audience had no problem intuiting its meaning.
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Is it time for the United States to reach out to North Korea, to formally concede what it cannot change - namely that North Korea is a nuclear-armed nation - not as any favor to the Stalinist regime but to generate a quid pro quo, the establishment of official liaison offices in the two countries' capitals?
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Guam, an American tropical outpost annexed at the end of the 19th century, has been threatened by name by the Stalinist despot of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. A THAAD anti-missile battery sits somewhere out of sight behind the scrubby trees that line this vast airfield, providing anti-missile defence for the island.
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We haven't even gotten to Trump trying to buy Greenland, marching into women's changing rooms to admire undressed teenagers, borrowing Stalinist language to denounce the press as the "enemy of the people," claiming that climate change is a Chinese conspiracy, banning Muslims or diverting money to build the wall that Mexico supposedly would pay for.
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This was once a drugstore, Zook's Pharmacy, that doubled as a base for Russian espionage; in between filling prescriptions and ringing up customers, deep cover Stalinist spies here plotted the death of Leon Trotsky and later coordinated efforts to steal the secrets of the atomic bomb from Los Alamos (distance from Zorro Ranch: 50 miles).
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But he also didn't much like her bringing all sorts of people of "loose morals"—Woolf and Sackville-West, as well as E.M. Forster and George Bernard Shaw (who participated in political debates and created anxiety, especially after he visited Stalinist Russia and was not allowed to discuss his travels on the air)—into his fancy establishment.
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Working with an eye toward profit and no small degree of goodwill, the same hands and minds that designed the Fordist U.S.A. designed the Stalinist U.S.S.R. Soviet industrialization was the zenith of the twentieth-century religion of industry, involving projects that dwarfed even the mind-boggling, record-breaking Ford plants at River Rouge and Highland Park in Michigan.
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Yet with contempt for rule of law and independent institutions spreading around the world, even Mr. Mirziyoyev's modest attempts to buck the trend are significant, especially as the Stalinist system prevalent across Central Asia (with the exception of little Kyrgyzstan), with its arbitrary arrests and widespread torture, is far more pernicious than anything happening in Europe.
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After World War II, tiny Albania became a hermit state, rigidly controlled by a Stalinist dictator, Enver Hoxha, who broke with both the Soviet Union and Maoist China, desecrated the country's mosques and churches and planted the beaches across from the Greek island of Corfu with pillboxes before his regime collapsed in 1990, five years after his death.
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From this point of view, the iconoclasts who want to simply tear the things down or transport them to a sculpture park (as Russia did with some Stalinist emblems) have a more consistent position: slavery and secession were evil and traitorous, Jim Crow a nasty continuation, the so-called monuments a disgrace to a contemporary multiethnic American city.
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In Brooklyn you'll find some engrossing self-portraits, including MoMA's severe "Self-Portrait With Cropped Hair," but Kahlo also painted half-competent still lifes, gross Stalinist agitprop, and ghastly New Age kitsch — including this show's "The Love Embrace of the Universe ...," a world-spiritualist tableau featuring a lactating Mother Earth that would make Deepak Chopra blanch.
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There are reasons why the world does not seek to topple North Korea's impetuous young leader, Kim Jong Un. For one, his regime—a Stalinist take on a feudal monarchy, funded by mafia-like criminality around the globe—keeps artillery pieces and rocket-launchers aimed at the South's booming capital, Seoul, 35 miles from the border between the two Koreas.
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This blogger has been told by Asian diplomats that—for all that they blench when Mr Trump mocks the 34-year old Mr Kim as "Little Rocket Man" or boasts about the size of America's nuclear button—they can see a value to challenging the North Koreans in the field of unpredictability, which the Stalinist state has had to itself for so long.
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Contemplating the recent rapprochement between North and South Korea during the Winter Olympics, Mr Bolton cleared his throat, cracked his knuckles and cranked out a treatise in the Wall Street Journal entitled "The Legal Case for Striking North Korea First", making an argument for a preventive strike on the Stalinist north, before it perfects missiles that can hit American cities.
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Likewise, when ESPN fired baseball legend Curt Schilling and apparently removed him from a documentary for sending controversial tweets, the Post's Editorial Board wrote that it was "petty and childish" for ESPN to fire him, and that removing him from the documentary was "full[y] Stalinist," thus likening ESPN's conduct to that of history's second worst mass murderer And then there's this bit of trolling.
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Although Esperantists refer to themselves as samideanoj (from the English "same idea"), Esperantujo seems never to have lacked for either colorful characters or the "dirtiness of fighting" that George Orwell, whose aunt Nellie was one of those characters, ascribed to the so-called international languages: Schor looks at Marxist Esperantists, Stalinist Esperantists, Nazi Esperantists and anti-traditional Far Eastern Esperantists, along with the samideanoj she encounters in her travels.
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