Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unprivileged get along with what for Americans seems an odd docility. But both Kaiser and Smith point out that for the majority of Soviet citizens, the minimal comforts of housing -however cramped (10 ft. sq. per person, by Lenin's edict)-and a regular diet-however spare (sausage, potatoes, cabbage)-are better than they had before. Especially to those older Russians who lived through the hunger of the war. conditions now seem acceptable. There are even hints of affluence -a few self-service stores, prepackaged goods. Some citizens feel rich enough to afford wigs, pets and facelifts. The wait...
...Mother's Heart (Soviet film about Lenin's mother), today at 7 and 9; Joe (with Peter Boyle) Friday and Saturday...
...historical parallels are obvious. Lenin's overthrow of the 400-year-old tsardom was not enough, Schwarz seems to say; he must come back again to erase the habit of servility from his people's souls. Only a Lancelot, he implies, can end the Russian people's submission to dictators who promise them peace and quiet...
...leaders of an anti-Chamoun uprising that disintegrated after U.S. Marines landed on Lebanon's beaches to restore order. Jumblatt has generally taken a strong socialist and pro-Palestinian line. Although he is nobody's man by any means, Jumblatt is admired in Moscow: he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1973 and the Order of Lenin...
...first time, hundreds of American intellectuals flirted with the ideas of Marxism, and a good number of them became outright converts; some even joined the Communist Party. Impressed by the imagination and comprehensiveness of Marx's thought, these Americans were probably even more moved by the stunning triumph of Lenin's band of professional revolutionaries in Russia, a country that in many ways seemed least likely of all to lead the march of history...