Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn over such power to another. Evidently, a super-police apparatus channeled directly from Stalin to key control points in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Such an apparatus was already created in the Orgburo and the Party Control Commission, by which Stalin organized himself into power after Lenin's death, and which later became a department of personnel in the Kremlin. Only such an apparatus could have arrested and destroyed former police chief Yagoda. From being dossier clerk to Yezhov, the young Malenkov is said to have graduated to secretarial head of this tidy personnel department. He may well...
Ambitious Patience. By "democratic centralism" within the Communist Party, Lenin had hoped-not very optimistically in his last days-to prevent a continuance of a personal dictatorship like his own. Rising to power by subterfuge and maneuver, Stalin destroyed every man of stature within his reach, at the same time paying vociferous lip service to "democratic centralism." Those he gathered around him, conditioning themselves to his homicidal suspicion, were small men, menials like Molotov, sycophants like Beria. Conscious of this, Stalin looked for successors among young party members, built them up to temporary power and fame, as often knocked them...
Saddle for a Cow. The prospect before Ulbricht is not at all the way Marx or Lenin or Stalin or Ulbricht had planned it. Before World War II ended, the Soviet master plan for Germany was drawn up and working. Roughly, it was laid out in three stages. Stage One: milk the occupation zone of Germany of all the industrial plants, tools, raw materials, foodstuffs and talent (i.e., top scientists and technicians) that could be transferred to war-damaged Russia. Stage Two: Bolshevize all means of material existence, and force-build agricultural East Germany into a workshop for Russia...
...renegade bloc of Socialists merged with Rosa Luxemburg's and Karl Liebknecht's Spartakusbund in 1920 to form the German Communist Party, Walter Ulbricht was there as a charter member. He was an enthusiastic organizer and well-crammed encyclopedia of the dictums and ambiguities of his idol, Lenin. But his prime talent was treachery...
Hungary was a vestigially feudal country when the Communists took it over in 1944 in their sweep toward Vienna. The conquerors' remedy was the one Lenin had prescribed for Russia: speedy industrialization. With the same ruthless disregard for human life which characterized Stalin's carrying out of the Leninist injunction, they pursued this end: farmlands were collectivized, workers brutally regimented, living standards depressed. Last week, in a swift move that had overtones of the great Moscow turnabout of the '20s, the Hungarian Communists reversed their program...