Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepare for a golden honeymoon with postwar Russia. There is unabashed wooing in Foster Rhea Dulles' The Road to Teheran. More surprising is the headlong courtship of Pitirim A. Sorokin, the Harvard sociologist who was once a member of Kerenski's Cabinet and an unrelenting foe of Lenin and Trotsky. There is nuptial jubilation in Walter Duranty's USSR. But there is little besides gloomy foreboding in David J. Dallin's Russia and Postwar Europe...
...roamed Europe, sudying political economy, writing political tracts, making political friends, deepening her political color sense. She met Lenin in London, Trotsky in New York City. She joined the old Russian Social Democratic Party before there was a Communist (Bolshevik) Party. When the split came, she spurned the Bolsheviki (the majority), embraced the Mensheviki (the minority), and went back to St. Petersburg to take a small hand in the 1905 uprisings. In 1911 she was fighting capitalism in Paris, in 1912, militarism in Stockholm, in 1913, anti-Semitism in London...
Dybenko was purged in 1938 but not the redoubtable Kollontay. She survived "deviations" which would have doomed another Russian. Twice in the Revolution's early years she quit the party. Once she started a "workers' opposition"; Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin joined forces to destroy it but did not destroy her. An old hand at Bolshevik ways said recently: "When you think of the political company Kollontay kept and the casual way she treated the party line, you realize she must have been a hell of a beautiful something to by-pass liquidation...
...another room' a U.S. Army officer tackled Marshal Budenny for a signature on his short-snorter. Budenny refused to sign his name on Soviet currency with Lenin's picture. Then he refused to sign the currency of any sovereign nation. Finally he wrote his name on a plain slip of paper. Budenny and the American drank a toast. "May the next one be in Berlin," said the American. Bowing low, Budenny hoped the next would be much sooner than that...
German High Sea Fleet had mutinied when ordered to sea, into Berlin, where Karl Liebknecht had unfurled the red flag from the German Emperor's palace, down the Danube to Hungary, where gangs of Communist "Lenin boys" had killed a thousand citizens in three weeks, the solemn news of the victory that was really, defeat came through House's spies to the Conference. The dead still lay in the houses of Belgrade that the Austrians had shelled into ruins. Bonsal had walked un moved over the battlefields at Verdun, where many of the corpses were still unburied, "with...