ABSTRACT
“What’s the time now in Moscow?” (D. Ćosić in the novel The Sinner) is one of the best metaphors for international Stalinism. The time in Moscow did, indeed, change continually and unforeseeably in rhythm with the super-despot’s twists and turns, while all the other communist parties set their own clocks in tune with the Kremlin’s (until the Yugoslav communists began, so to say, asking “What’s the time now in Belgrade?”).
