Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just as Napoleon exploited the demand for liberty and equal political rights expressed in the French Revolution, so Hitler exploits for his purposes the demand for social equality and equal economic rights expressed in the Bolshevik Revolution. . . . Hitler has consummated the work, which Marx and Lenin had begun, of overthrowing the 19th-Century capitalist system...
Airport to Kremlin. From the airport a seven-car motorcade led by a black Packard limousine rolled on to Leningrad Highway past a huge statue of Lenin and mammoth apartment buildings with ragged faces, where war priorities had halted construction work. Nearer the city the highway merged into twelve-laned Gorki Street. Soldiers queuing up to buy afternoon newspapers and women carrying net sacks with bread and vegetables scarcely noticed the cars. But as the first limousine rolled down Gorki Street hill and turned west along the north wall of the Kremlin, U.S. and British correspondents recognized-in the light...
...survey of the public mind of Europe on Aug. 1, 1914. Where groups or individuals analyzed public reactions it was with a thought of their use, of their conscious manipulation to achieve a foreknown effect for the benefit of the group doing the manipulating. This was as true of Lenin, stunned that the German Social Democrats supported the war, as it was of Pareto, brooding over the "residues" of primitive impulses that lay beneath the conscious purposes of the masses...
...done much to shape the modern Red Army. He had no use for the man who was merely a professional militarist; for Stalin, officers and men had to be citizens of the revolution as well. When the Red cause seemed all but lost in south Russia, Stalin wrote to Lenin: "The fact is that our experts are not only psychologically incapable of ruthlessly combatting the counterrevolution, but likewise, being staff workers who know only how to make field sketches and draft plans for realignment, are absolutely indifferent to actual operations, and in general regard themselves as outsiders, as guests...
...Alone." Semion Timoshenko came out of the Finnish war with the Order of Lenin, the cherished title of Hero of the Soviet Union, a Marshalship and credit for smashing the Mannerheim Line. Actually he had to share the credit with two others: Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, then & now Stalin's Chief of Staff (TIME, Feb. 16), and Marshal Grigory Kulik, an artillery expert who has lately dropped out of sight...