Word: lenin
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...taking such high-handed actions, Lenin now had the weapon of a new police force known as the Cheka, which authorized local soviets to "arrest and shoot immediately" all members of "counterrevolutiona ry organizations." When a Socialist Revolutionary named Fanny Kaplan shot Lenin in the neck, the Cheka rounded up and executed 500 of her party comrades in one night. Lenin's view: "We have never renounced and cannot renounce terror." As for the future role of the Communists, the Eighth Party Congress decreed in 1919 that "the Russian Communist Party should master for itself undivided political supremacy...
Confronted with this disaster, Lenin zigzagged. According to the New Economic Policy inaugurated in 1921, private enterprise was once again permitted, farmers could keep or sell more of their crops, overtime pay was restored, a new state bank reformed the currency (sound familiar?). Predictably enough, improvements soon followed -- production up, trade up. But in this ambiguous moment of success, Lenin suffered a stroke. He struggled to stay at his post, to finish his work, but two more strokes increasingly paralyzed him, and after 22 months of decline, he died in 1924, at only...
Cover: Gorbachev photograph by Sergei Guneyev -- Novosti: Lenin photograph from Sovfoto
...think the changes are irreversible everywhere, including the Soviet Union. They may stop for a period, and there could even be some reversals. This is, after all, a revolution. All social groups, including the ruling class, are discontented. Let me quote Lenin. He said that those on the top cannot rule with old methods and those at the bottom don't agree to be ruled with those old methods...
...organization was founded in 1926 to study the gray matter of Lenin, and according to director Oleg Adrianov, it has since probed "many, many tens of brains," including those of Joseph Stalin and writer Maxim Gorky. The results of specific studies are classified...