Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping his old friends. After that he met Lenin and Trotsky, directed Russian terrorists from England until the Revolution...
Following close on John's dissertation on Harvard's step-children comes an article by a Mr. Lenin on Professor Sorokin which is mildly incomprehensible, but nevertheless educational. "Book Notes" is the next prominent feature of our distinguished contemporary, where in appear earnest works by Maxim Gorky and by Earl Browder...
...fixed by Lenin, Soviet tradition provides for voting by show of hands in the local Soviets. These elect higher Soviets which vote similarly by show of hands clear up through the All-Union Congress of Soviets (see above). Since in Russia it takes uncommon courage to get up in meeting and oppose the Communist Party, Comrade Lenin considered his system almost perfect. To make it utterly perfect he wrote into the Soviet Constitution that the vote of one presumably radical "proletarian" or factory worker shall equal the votes of five presumably reactionary Russian peasants, thus assuring the so-called "Dictatorship...
...fashioned opinions of Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin no dictatorship could count on getting enough votes if the ballot were secret. This fallacy Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have exploded with secret ballot after secret ballot in 'which they always poll better than 90%. Last week Joseph Stalin decided that it will now be all right for the Soviet Union to have secret ballots...
...four years the young students are given food, lodging and a salary, trained intensively in circus work, especially acrobatics and gymnastics. Besides that, they learn mathematics, physics, hygiene, history of the circus. Most important of all, they get a thorough grounding in Marx, Lenin and Stalin, for the circus, like every medium of Soviet entertainment, is also a medium of propaganda. All loyal clowns try to make their buffoonery a satire on the enemies of the Party without, inefficient bureaucrats within. To the infinite disgust of old and unsympathetic moujiks who go to the circus for amusement, the eager young...