{Big Mother is watching you [continued]}[22nd December 1988]

[Redbook6:68-69)][19881222:1510b]{Big Mother is watching you [continued]}[22nd December 1988]

19881222.1510

[continued]

[In the last previous journal entry text extract –]

For	Thatcher	read*	Stalin
For	small businessmen	read	Nepmen
	small farmers	read	peasants
	socialist	read	revolutionary
	Secretary of State for	read	Commissar of
	youngsters	read	peasants
	(3rd) Thatcher	read	Soviet

**

– This*** is then as set out in E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica] XXVII.1004 [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics pp 968-1017 History of Russia in the Soviet Union] – the next para[graph] of which reads:

‘In 1929, the power of the party was turned on Soviet intellectual life, until then the freest aspect of the system. Beginning with crackdowns on the philosophers and historians, every academic and artistic field was subjected to the dictates of extreme Marxism and the imposition of strict party controls. Typically, the party found a leader in each particular field who represented the doctrinaire Marxist view – notably, the historian Mikhail Pokrovsky and the literary critic Leopold Averbakh – and gave them authority to impose the party line on their colleagues. “Bourgeois” (that is, nonconformist) thinkers and artists were silenced or, in many cases, imprisoned. Immediate technological or propaganda contributions to production were the overriding demand. Few artistic works of merit were produced, with the notable exception of Mikhail Sholokhov’s novels. Overall, the doctrine of partiynost – party spirit – was stressed, entailing party judgements in every field as to ultimate truth and the appropriateness of any piece of work. Party judgement, in turn, ultimately meant Stalin’s personal judgement.’

*[This is the imperative, not the past tense]

**[Also, for 1960’s read 1920’s, & for 19-- read 1929]

***[See last previous entry]

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