Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they say, Lenin's most intimate friend in the inner Communist circle. "Minister of Nationalities," he was chiefly responsible for binding the outlying provinces to the Soviet r�gime. He himself came from Georgia?was once a clerk there...
...have seen deeper and farther than Lenin did. He had all the attributes of a great man except love and humility, but those lacks made him the cynical organizer of a system in which he ceased to believe. Not love but hate was the impelling motive of his life, and so he destroyed one tyranny, that of the czar, only to set up another...
...Lenin's intellectuality was put at the service of a bloodless ideal, that of a mechanical civilization in which economic forces were everything and human forces nothing. He strove to realize it by methods that were as horrible as any that Nero in ancient Rome or the worst inquisitor of the middle ages used. There has not been in history a man who so well exemplified the hellishness of a great intellect utterly barren of the noble influences that come from the heart...
...great thoughts," said Vauvenaurgues, "come from the heart." All Lenin's thoughts came from his head. They were cold as death itself, and they are today as dead as their source...
...other two members of the triumvirate supposed to succeed Lenin are Jews?Zinoviev and Kamenev, brother-in-law of Trotsky. Rykoff is also mentioned...