Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While there was loose talk last week of coalition building, especially between the Communists and Zhirinovsky's followers -- a so-called Red-Brown coalition -- Russia's once daunting mastery of party discipline has gone the way of the honor guard at Lenin's tomb. Any alliances forged in coming days are likely to founder shortly after the Duma convenes in Moscow next month and Deputies get their first real taste of lawmaking. Despite the surprising showing by the Liberal Democrats, Zhirinovsky's power will be much diluted once the Duma gets down to business...
China, on the other hand, stands alone. It is monolithic, but lacks leverage in any part of the world except its own formidable chunk. And while China does value international influence, it has no evangelistic mission propelled by the figures of Lenin and Marx...
...Cage eventually realized. In Peter Greenaway's 1983 television documentary on him, Cage complains that he has had trouble getting performers to take him seriously. "I must find a way to let people be free without their being foolish," Cage says, "so that their freedom will make them noble." Lenin might have felt the same...
...shot by Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg, Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and three of their children will receive a proper burial. The bones were discovered in a pit outside the town in 1991. Meanwhile, one week after honor guards ended their 69-year watch outside the tomb of Vladimir Lenin, the fate of his embalmed corpse remains undetermined...
...then the great and glorious day will dawn when Cantabrigians all--every man, woman and child--will rise up under the mighty spell of the Peruvian pied pipers, topple this monstrosity and abandon it in the trashheap together with Marx, Lenin and The Shops at Harvard Yard...