Word: lenines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...object of all the dutiful interest was Nikita Khrushchev's new Communist Party program, hailed by the Kremlin as the hottest thing in Communist ideology in 40 years, designed to place Nikita right up there with Marx and Lenin among the philosophers of mankind. Not since 1919, when Lenin produced his own massive program, had a new draft of the party's dogma been put on paper.* Now, at vast length, all the distant promises and ambitious boasts were reaffirmed, in rhetoric that was at least somewhat more readable, if less dialectically skillful than Lenin...
...everybody. Workers, who now must moonlight on second jobs to get enough to live on, were promised a six-hour workday ("this will come within ten years"). But at the 21st Party Congress three years ago, this same starry goal was promised for 1961; it was even part of Lenin's grandiose scheme of 1919. The draft plan spoke of a "fourfold increase" in meat production during the next two decades, but discreetly did not quote Moscow's own published statistics showing the slaughter rate to be increasing at a mere 5% annually...
...Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan...
...rest went off with Communist clockwork, as in any Red capital on any Red anniversary. There stood Gagarin, the pocket-sized Soviet hero, on the reviewing stand with Castro, who towers over him. There, below, were the cheering masses, the enormous pictures of Lenin and Khrushchev. The expected display of half a dozen Soviet MIG-17 jets thundered overhead on schedule. There was even a seven-hour gymkhana in Civic Square by 70,000 massed "athletes...
NONFICTION / 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) 2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2) / 3. Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (5) / 4. The New English Bible (3) / 5. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (4) 6. The Making of the President 1960, White (9) 7. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (6) 8. Firsthand Report, Adams 9. Inside Europe Today, Gunther 10. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Hauser...