Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With giant strides we move toward Lenin's aims?Industrialization! Electrification!! MECHANIZATION...
Stalin and Religion. As a matter of course Stalin and every member of the Communist Party accept as gospel Lenin's further dictum: "Religion is opium for the people...
Naturally Stalin assists the International. In his younger days the Dictator exploded bombs, arranged assassinations of Tsarist officials, robbed banks?all this to reduce the number of his Party's enemies, increase the amount of Party funds. Six times he was exiled, six times escaped. Lenin, in recognition of the young man's cold, keen, remorseless efficiency, nicknamed him "Steel...
...raise the cultural level of the entire population and to create the foundations of a Communist culture, as opposed to Capitalist culture." U. S. readers who think vaguely of Tolstoi and Dostoievski as timelessly typical of Russian literature will be disillusioned by this book. When Tolstoi died in 1910. Lenin wrote that "prerevolutionary Russia, with its lack of energy and strength, expressed in the philosophy of a genuine artist, has receded into the past." Roughly, Dostoievski and Tolstoi are as representative of contemporary Russia as are Nathaniel Parker Willis and James Fenimore Cooper of the U. S. Strange names loom...
...strong will, and persistence in carrying out his aims. His political horizon is restricted, his theoretical equipment primitive. The fact that today he is playing first is not so much a summing-up of the man as it is of this transitional period of political backsliding in the country." Lenin, says Trotsky, never liked nor trusted Stalin, but of Trotsky he said-"There has been no better Bolshevik...