Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky, 87, oldest Bolshevist revolutionary, who shared with Lenin a 17-month prison term that began in 1895, later became a director of the Soviet Union's first Five-Year Plan, was eulogized in 1957 by the Current Digest of the Soviet Press as "one of the founders of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia . . . founder of the scientific school of Soviet power engineering, a dreamer and poet...
...Paper. West Berlin, said Ike in his speech draft, is not just a city 4,000 miles away-seven hours by jet flight-but is the symbol of the free world. Khrushchev's talk-threat to renounce the Big Four agreements and impose a new blockade fitted Lenin's definition that "promises are like piecrusts, made to be broken." Free men have died before for so-called scraps of paper that represented duty, honor and freedom. Said Ike: "Let the Soviets remember...
...fiercely anti-Soviet, have a large part of the population on their side, and live off the country. On skis and on horseback, he scouts the Siberian forests, running down his quarry while he dreams of the day when man and the world will be as good as Lenin's promise. There is no hate in him; he kills for a better world...
...China's Mao knew that his ideas would not prevail. Breaking the long official Soviet silence on Red China's "big leap" to create communes throughout the countryside in 1958, Khrushchev declared that Communism-the ultimate, classless form of human society described by Marx, Engels and Lenin ("To each according to his need")-cannot be achieved without first building socialism ("To each according to his work...
...Lenin is supposed to have remarked that there could be any number of political parties in the Soviet Union but only on one condition: the Communist Party must be in power and all the other parties must be in jail...