Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front lobby wall of the RCA Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center has worn a false face of white plaster since last spring (TIME, May 22). Behind that mask was a great, bright unfinished fresco by Muralist Diego Rivera. When the visage of Nikolai Lenin unexpectedly blossomed in the centre of the painting, the Rockefellers paid Communist Rivera off with $14,000 due him, covered his work with canvas...
...admirer of Lenin (whom he never succeeded in interviewing), Duranty takes the un-Russian view that Lenin sometimes made mistakes. The NEP (New Economic Policy), which temporarily allowed private capitalist enterprise to shore up tottering Communist industry, was made necessary, says Duranty, by Lenin's misreading of world events in 1917. Lenin counted on the World War ending in a stalemate, believed the World Revolution would then spread everywhere. Instead, the U. S. tipped the scales, Germany was beaten and Russia became the vulnerable enemy of all Europe. Duranty reminds his readers of Lenin's frank admission...
...historians will be grateful for his picture of Lenin addressing a meeting: "The buzz of conversation dies as he shuffles onto the stage before you. For a period you join in the frantic applause. Then you watch him, this little man in his plain suit, standing there modestly, almost humbly. He speaks in German, not very well, pausing occasionally or even asking a word from those beside him. At first, though the silence is complete, you can hardly hear him. Then his voice strengthens and you listen with feverish eagerness for his message...
Duranty explains Lenin's extraordinary authority (he was never officially dictator) by his often-proved superior ability in interpreting facts. He tells the story of how Lenin, at a committee meeting in early revolutionary days, encountered general opposition. Wrapping his head in his cloak he told his comrades to wake him when they had argued themselves into agreement with his plan. An hour or two later they woke him, said he was right...
...public loyalty to Stalin no Russian is louder than Klim who constantly hails the Dictator as "Lenin's true disciple, the Bolshevik of Bolsheviks...