Word: lenines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When you explained the procedure that the Russians go through to preserve the body of Lenin, I was reminded of those wonderful lines from Robert Service in his The Ballad of Lenin's Tomb...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Biography of Lenin and Trotsky...
Happy and self-congratulatory, people all over this country are settling into the bleachers as spectators in the great quarrel between Russia and China. Time (Lenin on the cover) and Newsweek (Marx) are selling score-cards predicting which side the various Communist parties will take, at the great showdown. Coverage in the daily press exudes the same sports-page flavor, and perhaps inevitably, one of the contestants is emerging as popular favorite...
...Stalin had as much right as Khrushchev to claim Lenin's heritage, perhaps more. Although he added his personal despotic flourishes, Stalin had learned about terror, about dictatorship, about the total disregard of human life or ordinary human decency, from his master Lenin. In one important respect, Stalin did greatly enlarge upon a force present in Lenin's life only embryonically-Russian nationalism...
...purging Trotsky, Stalin sounded much like Khrushchev attacking Mao. Trotsky, like Mao, talked about an immediate drive for world revolution; Stalin countered with repetition of Lenin's concept of "socialism in one country" and the idea that Mother Russia must be developed first as a guide and model for the world revolution. For the sake of Soviet foreign policy, he calmly sacrificed the interests of foreign Communist parties-notably including the Chinese party itself. In all this, Khrushchev closely resembles Stalin, even though he took the momentous step of denouncing Stalin's oppressive form of dictatorship...