Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confessed" that, together with Winston Churchill, ex-French Premiers Poincaré and Briand, he and his fellow "wreckers" were planning a military attack on the U.S.S.R. After his death sentence had been commuted to ten years' imprisonment, Ramzin's inventions won him freedom (1932), the Order of Lenin and the 150,000-ruble Stalin Prize...
Zapotocky's history was the standard success story of the Communist who works in the shadows, waiting for his moment. In the days of the Habsburgs he was a stonecutter and a Social Democrat. When, after World War I, Lenin changed the name of Russian Bolshevism from Social Democracy to Communism, Zapotocky changed his label too. He became one of the first Communist deputies in free Czechoslovakia's politically tolerant Parliament. After Hitler came, Zapotocky spent six years behind barbed wires at Sachsenhausen, moved from there into the presidency of the Czechoslovak Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and resumed...
...German Communist Boss Wiihelm Pieck recently told 200 "Socia11st Unity" Party workers: "We are losing one position after another to the reactionaries. We put on brilliant parades, but the election results are the opposite. We have examples of opportunist backsliding and degeneracy in our party. [Many Communists] can cite Lenin, Marx and Engels, but they cannot cope with practical politics ... A belief has awakened in the masses that ... we are on the downward path...
...Gromyko had never got across to Americans, nor they to him, apparently. He was the prototype of the "new man" that Lenin's revolution had promised. The armor-plating was part of the pattern. If his residence in the U.S. had taught him anything different from what his Communist ideology required him to believe, that was, and for safety's sake would remain, his secret...
...years since Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto espoused "an open, legalized community of women," few subjects have been more frequently disputed by Marxists. Lenin, in one of his sharpest departures from Marxism, vehemently rejected "free love" on the ground that "love is more than drinking a glass of water." But Alexandra Kollontay, who instituted the Soviet system of easy divorce in 1917, was called "Russia's only real Communist" because of her advocacy of free love