Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liked: poker, his Gila monster and alligators, practical jokes with electricity, flattery, a lamp-and-mirror arrangement by which incoming female visitors would see themselves suddenly, the color green, down-and-outers, steak and potatoes, bicycle riding, a personal letter from Russia's Lenin refusing his aid in Soviet electrification...
...Russia speak Lenin, Trotzky, Lunacharsky, Yaroslavsky, bigwigs...
...Spring of 1917, Lenin, imprisoned in Switzerland, employed a "sealed train" of the Hohenzollerns in order to get to the Russian workers. . . . Imprisoned by the Thermidorians in Constantinople I employed the bourgeois press as a sealed train in order to speak the truth to the whole world...
...half of the income. I answered that I personally would not take a cent, but that the agency might deliver at my direction half the income from my articles, and that with this money I would publish in the Russian language and in foreign languages a whole series of Lenin's writings...
...reconstruction for which he was personally responsible - at home, in Russia, Ireland, Turkey, Palestine. Notoriously hostile to the Bolshevik regime, he castigates the man whose body is "still preserved in pickle for the curiosity of the Moscow public and for the consolation of the faithful." - Lenin. "In the cutting off of the lives of men and women no Asiatic conqueror, not Tamerlane, not Jenghiz Khan, can match his fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy...