Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortfall, the second major Soviet grain crisis in the past four years, raises a basic question that has bedeviled the commissars since Lenin's days: Why is the Soviet Union unable to feed itself? U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz last week had a ready explanation: "There is no greater folly than to try to dictate agriculture policy from the political arena. Centralized decision making doesn't work-it never has and it never will...
Brezhnev's speech struck most listeners as moderate and conciliatory. It was devoid of any crowing about Soviet policy, except for one gratuitous reference to Lenin as an early proponent of peaceful coexistence. Of the conference results, he declared, "There are neither victors nor vanquished, winners nor losers ... It is a gain for all who cherish peace and security on our planet...
...stability are not too good, since most collective leaderships have been the victims of their members' quests for unshared power. Octavian outmaneuvered his fellow triumvirs-Mark Antony and Lepidus-to become undisputed ruler of ancient Rome, and Soviet history is littered with collective leaderships that failed. Following Lenin's death, Stalin served on two consecutive triumvirates, each time ruthlessly eliminating his supposedly coequal partners. After Stalin, the various members of the Kremlin's new collective kept vying with each other for supremacy until Nikita Khrushchev emerged...
...impression of blissful discovery. Part of the conductor's complete cycle of the Tchaikovsky symphonies, this LP is highly recommended, even if it lacks the suavity of Lorin Maazel and the Vienna Philharmonic and even if the Moscow Radio Symphony is not quite the equal, say, of the Lenin grad Philharmonic...
During the rest of his life, DuBois travelled extensively through the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952, the Lenin Peace Prize in 1959 and that same year was honored by Chou En-lai at a birthday dinner in Peking...