Word: lenin
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...fashionable grumpiness about Gorbachev implies a nostalgia for at least some aspects of the bad old days. Yes, Leonid Brezhnev presided over an era of stagnation, but perhaps that was preferable to the nervous breakdown that the U.S.S.R. seems to be experiencing now. Moreover, when Brezhnev was on the Lenin mausoleum, waving like a rusty windup toy at the troops parading by, there was a predictability to Soviet behavior and a stability in international life that in retrospect are beginning to look good to some...
...Lenin once referred to the vast, polyglot Russian Empire of the Czars as a "prison of nations." Most of those captive nations, set loose briefly by the Bolshevik Revolution and the aftermath of World War I, were reconquered by the Red Army and reforged into the modern Soviet Empire: 15 ethnically diverse republics spreading almost 7,000 miles from the Polish border to the Sea of Japan...
...different interpretations of Eastern European reform suggests, the far left in the U.S. is deeply divided over Marxist theory. Some embrace Josef Stalin, others Leon Trotsky. One group rejects both and says only Lenin correctly interpreted Marx...
...example, says that it follows the teachings of Lenin, Marx and the late Mao Zedong, former chair of the Chinese Communist Party and author of the infamous Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and early...
Another communist sect, the International Socialist Organization (ISO) looks back even further to pinpoint the end of true communism. Gary Springston, an ISO spokesperson, says that for all intents and purposes, socialism disappeared with Lenin's death...