Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Youth. The man who (with Lenin) embodied this historic force was born (1879) in a small village near Tiflis in Georgia. For the new age, his family status was equivalent to a patent of nobility: Stalin's father was a semiliterate shoemaker who had been a peasant. Georgia is one of Asia's few Christian countries ("I too am an Asiatic," Stalin greeted the Japanese Foreign Minister in 1941). So Stalin went to a Jesuit seminary to become a priest. But he soon left. At an age (15) when Winston Churchill was at Harrow and Franklin Roosevelt...
...Bolshevism," Bolsheviks liked to brag, "has peopled half the jails of Europe with philosophers." In almost no time Stalin became one of these philosophers. His first arrests were for organizing illegal strikes and Marxist groups. Later he was jailed on more colorful charges. When Lenin split the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (1903) into a minority (Mensheviks) and a majority (Bolsheviks), Stalin followed Lenin. But times were hard. The Bolsheviks were only a handful of zealots. Their work was hampered by comrades who eked out lean livings as revolutionists by spying in their spare time for the Tsar...
...November 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power. Said Lenin, at the second All-Russian Congress of the Soviets: "We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist order." The most stubborn fact in modern history had turned up: in a country continental in size, one class (the proletariat) had repudiated democracy and, guided by a monolithic party, rushed in the name of Communism toward the totalitarian state...
...German prisoner) but occasionally romps with his rugged daughter; that he works at any hour of the day & night; that he prefers his office in the Storaya Ploshad to his offices in the Kremlin; that he rests up three days a week in the country house where Lenin died; that he travels in a bulletproof automobile...
...most stubborn fact of Lenin's life was that he had achieved the world's greatest political revolution. The most stubborn fact of Stalin's was that he achieved the world's greatest economic revolution. It was a long way-the span of a crucial epoch of world history-from the Tsar's jails, police files and fingerprints to revolutionary triumph and apotheosis...