Word: leninism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Moscow's Red Square, according to a Pravda announcement, the pyramidal tomb which the embalmed remains (or a reasonable facsimile) of Nikolai Lenin now share with the body of Josef Stalin will be opened to the faithful this week for the first time since Stalin's death...
Warning from Lenin. Another vital issue was currency convertibility-the tricky problem of how to make pound notes, dollars, lire and kroner freely exchangeable. There were strong voices for it, notably Britain's Butler and West German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the man who has done most to spark Germany's industrial boom. Erhard warned: "The word of Lenin, that you just have to destroy the currencies of capitalist countries to make them ripe for Communism, should cause all democratic countries to stop and think . .." The conference agreed that one day soon, convertibility is inevitable if Europe...
...Communism was about, because he had once been a Communist. Fighting on the Russian front in World War I, he was wounded and captured by the Czar's army. They set him to work in the coal mines, south of Moscow. The Red Revolution freed him, and Nikolai Lenin himself made Reuter a commissar in the new U.S.S.R. His boss in the Commissariat of Nationalities was Joseph Stalin, whom he afterwards dismissed as a man with "the mind of a sergeant...
Reuter went back to Berlin in 1918. A letter from Lenin recommended him as "a man with a brilliant and lucid mind-but a little too independent." Reuter soon broke with the Reds and returned to Socialism. Pravda called him a warmonger...
...Communist Party (1919) and became its first secretary; of meningitis; in Manhattan. Born in Italy, he came to the U.S. as a child, joined the Socialist Party, after the 1917 Bolshevist Revolution emerged as a spokesman of the party's Marxist extremists, hoped to become an American Lenin. Under federal indictment for sedition, Agitator Corey fled the country in 1920, in Moscow got a hero's welcome and a disillusioning first look at the new workers' paradise. Back in the U.S. and no longer a party member, he turned out a set of widely read, statistics-laden...