Word: lenines
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...NATIONALISM. At least to begin with, Lenin put the cause of worldwide revolution ahead of any one nation's self-interest. "I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it," he said after the October Revolution of 1917. "All this is only the road to a World Revolution." On the other hand, when White Armies were storming toward
...Moscow and Petersburg, Lenin swiftly turned nationalist, calling on Russians to defend "the Socialist fatherland...
...Lenin did just that. He adapted Marx to totally different conditions than those known to the scholarly, misanthropic exile in 19th century London. Marx predicted that the revolution would happen in an advanced industrial society and shaped his theories to this prophecy; Lenin applied them to a backward peasant country. Marx was inclined to sit back and let the revolution come; Lenin taught that it had to be helped along with the aid of a corps of professional revolutionaries...
...Lenin owes nearly as much to Machiavelli and Von Clausewitz as to Marx. He passionately believed in Marxism-but he also believed in using any means to help it win. Thus what he did is at least as important as what he said. In the last analysis, Leninism is Lenin's life. He remains pertinent not only because his successors keep invoking him, but because he epitomizes in his career so much of later Communist history and so much of what is unchanging in Communism's nature...
While in Shushenskoe, Lenin married a fellow exile, Nadezhda Krupskaya, a thin, hot-eyed girl with carroty hair and many of the strong-minded qualities of the young women in the pages of Chekhov and Turgenev. The honeymooners spent their time translating The Theory and Practice of Trade Unionism, by the British Socialist sages Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Of necessity, every revolutionary needed a pen name, and Vladimir chose his: Lenin, presumably from the Lena River, the longest and one of the coldest in Siberia...