Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mounting the podium with extreme solemnity, Khrushchev spoke for three hours with great care and feeling-and sometimes in tears. His first words were to praise Stalin: in the early days, said Khrushchev, Stalin was a devoted and truly great servant of the party, and in the decade after Lenin's death (1924) his leadership was indispensable. But in the last 19 years of his life Stalin had done enormous harm to the party, the Soviet Union and the Soviet people...
Myth & Reality. But a myth does not die easily. Among those millions of Soviet citizens who had never played any part in the intrigues of the ruling hierarchy or shared their terrors, there was evident confusion. In Moscow the large number of people seeking to file through the Lenin-Stalin tomb (possibly out of curiosity, to check whether his body was still there) caused a reinforcement of security guards. In Georgia, birthplace of Stalin, the official disregard of the third anniversary of his death (March 5) aroused wide resentment. Next day, following a number of unofficial party meetings, thousands...
...Soviet system is the kind of thing the people say about Stalin. Although few volunteered any information on this point, Malia did receive answers once he had asked the question They ranged all the way from real hate to simple unwillingness to discuss the subject, other than to praise Lenin. Almost no one expressed any warmth for Stalin...
This antagonistic element Malia described as "Leninist," saying that it felt that conditions had been better under Lenin and desired a return to those conditions. Chief among its beliefs, he said, was the idea that the Communist party had been run democratically under Lenin, and that it was no longer...
...swank Parioli district they gathered in a movie theater in response to a call from 39 Communist leaders, mostly onetime partisan fighters in World War II (including five expelled from the party by Togliatti and 14 with expulsions pending). These were the militants: they had read their Marx and Lenin; they believe in the inevitability of violence. They issued a manifesto accusing the party directorate of abandoning the Marxist-Leninist line, of giving up the fight against capitalism and of behaving not like revolutionaries, but like reformed Socialists who believe that Socialism may be attained by parliamentary means. Recalled...