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a e contributors are specialists in all
e many aspects of the Soviet Union
(j." die global conspiracy which it
""s- Some of them are former offl-
°f the Soviet government and
4,rect:
hials
v° seen both Stalin and his succes-
j s ;'t close range. Others have been
P°rtant figures in Ihe Communist
(^'"■atus in America. Those who
ti'"|v-lv<.s have not participated in
Soviet program of conquest are
itr'fi('d to speak authoritatively on
e() y reason of direct personal experi-
ij .e'>r by long research and study. It
"Istiuctive that, while thev vary in
vJl^'ch and emphasis, thev agree,
L^OUt exception, that the ultimate
riv1°rta"('(' ol anti-Stalinism will de-
L n"t from the disposition made ol
''I1'1 Stalin, bul from the reaction
IBelowl Nikito Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet
Communist Party, wore the
Russian smile while attending a reception during his
visit to England last April.
vi,ies has organized this sym-
^SIUm in an endeavor to provide an wl
®°.Uate explanation of. and an indi-
")ri of. what the world may expect
to this by the West.
Does the disenthroneinent of Stalin
signify the abandonment of the Communist goal of world revolution? Is
communism beginning a metamorphosis into a respectable political enterprise? Have Khrushchev, Bulganin,
and the men who rule with them and
who share the odium for the crimes
which they now lay upon Stalin suddenly become men of good vvill, renouncing violence and aggression?
Stalin's successors would like to
hear a chorus of affirmative answers
to these questions, and there are many
who are willing to oblige them. It is
these people, drawn to the supposed
idealism ol communism but repelled
by the excesses of Stalin, that anti-
Stalinism stretches forth to embrace.
Hut it is evident, even this early, that,
irrespective of the causes which may
have produced il. anti-Stalinism is but
a political artifice, fraudulent and
more dangerous than any other produced by the Kremlin thus far. If it
succeeds, history may some day replace the monuments to Stalin with
more enduring monuments to human
gullibility.
The significance of anti-Stalinism
cannot be discerned in the specific in-
I Above) Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin presented this curled lip countenance to the camera
ot luncheon at Birmingham, England, last April.
Bulganin, who had been startled by the photo-
flash, requested a retake which shows his face
wreathed in the cherubic smile so familiar to
Western audiences.
ternal conditions which may have
precipitated its adoption: a rivalry for
power within the Kremlin, severe
pressures arising from a conflict between the army and the Partv. deep
rumblings in the areas incorporated
forcibly into the Soviet political structure and still aspiring for a return to
independence. None of these in itself,
nor all together, provides a total explanation despite the appeal they have
to those who are inclined to regard
the slightest tremor as presaging the
disintegration of the Soviet totalitarian state.
An examination of anti-Stalinism
must first take into account the simple
truth that, while it may be aimed
against the memory of Joseph Stalin.
it is not aimed against his legacy.
While Khrushchev may repudiate
Stalin as his political ancestor, he has
not repudiated Stalin's establishment
of the vast Soviet Communist empire
which he himself now rules. The basis
of Khrushchev's power, thc basis from
which he seeks to project new advances against the free world, is Stalin's Russia; and the means by which
he seeks to accomplish it, are Stalin's
means. As long as this is true, the per-
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