Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tripped up in trying to propose an alternative to the unpopular state income tax. Virginia's Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton easily moved up in rank by beating Democrat "Howlin' " Henry Howell, a big-business-baiting populist who can make the Lord's Prayer sound like Lenin's urging an assault on the Winter Palace...
...heavy weapons and mechanized vehicles clattered through Red Square, compared with 151 in 1976. Some of the speeches, too, were steelier. The mighty bash-televised live throughout the Soviet Union-opened with a blunt address by Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Standing in subfreezing weather, with his Politburo colleagues, atop Lenin's mausoleum, Ustinov, 69, made the obligatory bow to "the struggle for peace, détente and disarmament," then launched into vigorous affirmation of Moscow's determination "to further strengthen our armed capabilities" so that no potential foe "will risk violating our peaceful lives...
...Soviet Union to his position as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Included in the parade was a 25-ft.-tall portrait of Brezhnev, bordered by electric light bulbs; it showed the President waving in a pose made familiar by Bolshevism's chief founder, Vladimir Ilych Lenin. Earlier this year Moscow issued a postage stamp bearing Brezhnev's likeness, the first stamp to picture a living Soviet leader since Stalin. At a reception after the parade, Brezhnev, who will be 71 next month, sounded considerably more conciliatory than had Defense Minister Ustinov. Offering a toast "to lasting peace...
...material terms, the Revolution has succeeded fairly in many areas. Today Lenin's heirs preside over formidable superpower that after six decades lumbers about the world in all the panoply and menace of one of history's great empires. Some historians argue, plausibly enough, that Russia with its vast resources, would have developed just as impressively or better, under quite different management Nevertheless, the Russian Empire that the Bolsheviks inherited in 1917 was a fairly primitive vastness, although some industrialization had begun. Despite its bloody civil war (1918-22) Stalin's savage purges...
...people are so much better informed now and probably would not stand for such mass terror. Then, the poet Anna Akhmatova wrote: "The stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, be loved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." Life under Lenin's current successor has relaxed, grown somewhat less bleak, but there still seems no prospect that the mythology will be fulfilled: that, in the fullness of time, the state will begin to wither away and leave only the classless, abundant workers' paradise. On the contrary, the stolid bureaucracy...