Word: ilyich
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...first football game between Harvard and Yale took place when Ulysses S. Grant was president of the United States, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a five-year old pre-schooler and the Science Center probably referred to a collection of Bunsen burners somewhere in the basement of Sever Hall. The 1875 competition--which was in reality more a rugby match than anything else--was actually not the beginning of the Harvard-Yale rivalry. That had begun more than two decades earlier with crew. No helmets or equipment were worn--the teams wore hats, knickers and britches for uniforms. The game...
...VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN A great person may be bad as well as good. Lenin, whose use of power in the Soviet Union, which he created and whose influence in the wider world was wholly for the bad, is undoubtedly the century's dominant figure. The ideas of Karl Marx were of little more than philosophical importance until 1917, when Lenin applied those ideas with revolutionary force and established the Bolshevik Party throughout the government. Bolshevik Russia became an example to Marxist revolutionaries everywhere and energized nationalist reactionaries, of whom the most important was Adolf Hitler. Hitler's ideological...
...incursions into Austria and Sudetenland) and Stalin's life story, which Lourie shrewdly reimagines--a biography enacted within a formula: Darwinism + Leninism = Stalinism. The tough little Georgian survivor, emerging from the Tiflis seminary as a militant atheist, took up petty crime and apprenticed himself not only to Vladimir Ilyich but also to "my hero, my model, my rival," Ivan the Terrible: "Ivan understood the great secret: Cruelty is the cutting edge of history. The deciding factor is always the greatest degree of cruelty most intelligently applied...
...Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister --Mohandas Gandhi, father of modern India --Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet reformer --Adolf Hitler, German dictator --Ho Chi Minh, first President of North Vietnam --Pope John Paul II, religious leader --Ayatullah R. Khomeini, leader of Iran's revolution --Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union --Nelson Mandela, South African President --Mao Zedong, leader of communist China --Ronald Reagan, U.S. President --Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President and New Deal architect --Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President and environmentalist --Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader --Margaret Thatcher, British Prime...
...incomprehensibility of Lenin is precisely this all-consuming intellectuality--the fact that from his calculations, from his neat pen, flowed seas of blood, whereas by nature this was not an evil person," writes Andrei Sinyavsky, one of the key dissidents of the 1960s. "On the contrary, Vladimir Ilyich was a rather kind person whose cruelty was stipulated by science and incontrovertible historical laws. As were his love of power and his political intolerance...