Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coaxed out of office by any special deals, or cajoled into resigning in exchange for leniency. I was not leaving from fear, and I would take my chances. 'Some of the best writing in history has been done from prison,' I said. 'Think of Lenin and Gandhi...
Laughter rippled down the banquet table at a government guesthouse in Lenin Hills on the outskirts of Moscow last week following Gromyko's circumlocutory sally. Every one of the 75 Soviet and American officials present-especially Secretary of State Cyrus Roberts Vance-understood all too well the reference to Vance's disastrous March 1977 visit, which marked a major setback for the new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) and for Soviet-American relations in general. Vance was now back, 13 months later, intending to avoid a repeat performance. As Vance told Gromyko...
...conferences. The furor was not only over the concept itself, one striking even by Eurocommunist standards, but also over sometimes heavy-handed manipulation by the leadership to put the point across. In defense of his Thesis, Carrillo argued that the party's identity was not being lost and Lenin was not being abandoned. Rather, according to Carrillo, the label change merely reflected new circumstances in Western Europe 54 years after the old revolutionary's death. Although Carrillo did not say so, his real goal, undoubtedly, was to give the party a better image in Spain...
Last week, at least, he demonstrated that he could. Despite strong Soviet advice to the Spanish Communists to stay with Leninism, the congress voted with Carrillo on Thesis XV, 968 to 248 to set a Communist precedent by dropping the party's Leninist label. With old Moscow friend La Pasionaria unaccountably absent and Carrillo grinning broadly, the delegates attempted to soften the blow by chanting "Lenin, Lenin, Lenin." The municipal elections anticipated later this year will be the first test of Carrillo's triumph-and new strategy...
...among other things, assembled a wonderful collection of anecdotes about Allen and the international dacoity that he practiced. In April of 1917, while serving as a duty officer at the American legation in Berne, Allen had a date with a girl and therefore refused to see someone named V.I. Lenin. By next day, Lenin was on his way back to Russia, where he immediately ordered peace negotiations with the Germans to begin. Lenin, who admired Woodrow Wilson, had wanted to establish an American contact...