Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Lenin returned to St. Petersburg on April 16, 1917 from his ten-year exile, he was escorted, amid armored cars, red flags and circling searchlights, to a chic town house. There, speaking to the crowd from a second-story balcony, he proclaimed the start of worldwide revolution. Before it became Bolshevik headquarters, that villa had been occupied by Mathilde Kchessinska, once Czar Nicholas II's great & good friend, certainly one of the best dancers of all time and one of two ever to bear the lofty title of prima ballerina assoluta.* In Berlin last week, another ballerina...
...morning nearly five years after the Russian Revolution of 1917, an article headlined "Professor Sorokin" appeared in Pravda. Written by Lenin himself, the article stated that though Sorokin had never agreed with the Bolsheviks, he was a true revolutionary at heart. Russia, Lenin concluded, "needs his mind...
Sorokin tackles his new work with the vigor of the young revolutionary who debated with Lenin and Trotsky. He has never lost the ability to support a cause he believes in, and does so in characteristically strong language. To his long list of writings, most of which have been translated into other languages, he has added several new volumes on altruism. Pointing proudly to a bulky, orange book on his desk, he remarked, "They are even writing books about my books...
Russia's No. 3 Communist, the party's Central Committee Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev, turned 60 and got enough tokens of Premier Georgy Malenkov's favor to suggest that he was riding high above any threat of purge: the Order of Lenin, the Hammer & Sickle Gold Medal, the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. The identical honors were once dealt out to Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, who made a one-way trip to a Moscow cellar last December...
...Khaled Moheddine showed that his true color was still red. He led a group of cavalry officers who demanded that Nasser turn over all power to Naguib. Moheddine seemed to look upon Naguib as a kind of Kerensky of the Egyptian revolution, while imagining himself to be the eventual Lenin...