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Purge of Stalin's Ghost. Inquiry Into an Inquest
Gayn, Mark | April 28, 1956 issue

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On December 21, 1955, "Pravda" appeared with a three-column photograph of Joseph Stalin on its front page. The day was the seventy-sixth anniversary of his birthday and, as has been its custom for years, the party newspaper marked the occasion with expressions of unalloyed devotion. Two editorials hailed "the faithful pupil and continuer of the work of Lenin." They praised his "masterly exposition of Leninism," they lauded "the new postulates of Marxist theory" he had formulated and they extolled his tireless struggle for "the Leninist unity of the party" and against "various distortions of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine.

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STALIN, Joseph, 1879-1953; COMMUNISM; SOVIET Union -- Politics & government; COMMUNIST parties; PRAVDA (Newspaper); SOVIET Union
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