Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis of Civilization. Facts, as Lenin liked to say, are stubborn things. These facts ran, like an obbligato of doubt, under the great gunfire of victory. But what chilled every thoughtful American and Briton and warmed every watchful German was the knowledge that with military success in sight the Big Three were split apart as never before. The stubborn fact of Allied relations was that Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin were preparing for a second Big Three meeting,* not because it was convenient to hold that meeting now, but because the crisis among the so-called United Nations had reached such...
...revolution, war, power and, above all, will had abraded it into somber strength. The hair, which had been purplish black like most Georgians', and grew far forward on the low forehead, had turned grey. The eyes, which had once peered out from velvety depths of unfathomable distrust ("Lenin trusts Stalin," old Bolsheviks used to say, "and Stalin trusts nobody"), had acquired an expression almost of authoritative benevolence...
Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky, 63, brush-haired, short-time head of Russia's Provisional Government in 1917, overthrown and exiled by Lenin, spoke up at a meeting of the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan for the U.S.S.R.'s territorial claims in eastern Poland and the Baltic States, declared that for Russia to give up these claims was like asking the "U.S. to disannex its possessions or . . . part of its own borders." Hedged anti-Communist Kerensky: "I am still the implacable enemy of the . . . dictatorship in Moscow. But since the first day of the (German) invasion, I have supported . . . the war aims...
...collected funds, tossed bouquets of red carnations at the guest of honor, the big meeting sang La Marseillaise (six times), the Internationale (four times). The comrades listened to political speeches by Acting Party Secretary Jacques Duclos, who sweated profusely, and ex-Party Secretary Marcel Cachin, who declaimed: "Thorez, like Lenin, is always ahead of the people." Then Thorez walked into the spotlight. He began softly, ended thunderously. His speech was organized around four catch phrases which constituted a program for French Communists in the next few months...
...crisis almost as acute as that threatening Premier Pierlot. In Rome, the Socialists and Communists (whose Naples membership had bounded from 2,000 to 60,000 in a year) staged a huge public rally. Up the Palatine Hill trudged thousands of men & women, carrying big pictures of Stalin and Lenin and Hammer-&-Sickle flags. Soon the Domitian Stadium (some 175 yds. long by 52 wide) was jammed with 25,000 red-shirted demonstrators. Most of them were middleclass...