Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the many dubious distinctions enjoyed by Soviet ex-Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov is that of having guessed right about Lenin in 1917. It is a point that Molotov, in his 30 years of steely self-discipline in the service of the egocentric Stalin, seldom boasted about. Last week 67-year-old Molotov gave rein to his long-suppressed Bolshevik pride in an article that took up two-thirds of a page in Pravda...
...occasion for Molotov's burst of reminiscence was the 40th anniversary of his first meeting with Lenin. The milder February Revolution of 1917, sled by the Social-Democrats and the Socialist-Revolutionaries and their allies, had broken out. Most of the leading Bolsheviks were still on their way to Petrograd from places of exile. In their absence Molotov, one of the editors of Pravda, gave out Bolshevik policy: Demand the complete Marxist program forthwith. When the big Bolsheviks arrived, they pooh-poohed the youthful (27) Molotov's naive and uncompromising view. But when Lenin stepped...
Such Moments. Wrote Molotov last week: "I first came to meet Lenin the day he returned to Petrograd from Switzerland (April 16. 1917). It was an exceptional and unforgettable moment for all of us who were present. We were impatient to see and hear Lenin. Instinctively many of us had, more or less correctly, divined the course the party had to follow. This was assisted by the articles and letters Lenin used to send to Pravda from abroad." Having indicated how things stood between himself and Lenin, Molotov goes on: "In the square outside the station I heard Lenin...
...mayor was untouched; there were great evil forces at work in the world, and Paul Egan stood ready to analyze them with frequent, mysterious monologues. Sample: "Lenin was a noble man, like Gandhi. It was that sonofabitch Trotsky that messed things up. And that obscenity Stalin. I wonder where he came from. I'll tell you. I think J. P. Morgan put him in. The two big things that cause world tension are religion and the National Association of Manufacturers. I went down to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and I saw gutters made out of marble...
...meal ticket but his experimental outlet for agitation and ideas during the most creative period in his life. Had there been no Tribune sustaining him, there might possibly-who knows?-have been no Das Kapital. And had there been no Das Kapital, would there have been a Lenin and a Stalin? And without Marxist Lenin and Stalin, in turn, would there have been...