Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorbachev is trying to promote. "We are emerging from the economy of the industrial revolution, an economy confined to and limited by the earth's physical resources" into a new type of postindustrial economy in which the "freedom to create is the most precious natural resource," he said as Lenin's bust beamed down on the crowd...
...hadn't he asked to go see the body of Lenin in the tomb on Red Square? He was so close. "The tomb is only open four days," Reagan says. "And the line was so long we did not want to interrupt it." The voice of Dutch Reagan seems to grow a little tentative. Was there an ideological limit to photo opportunities he would allow in this Kremlin pilgrimage? Was there a deal with his host, spoken or not, that Lenin and Reagan should lie and stand apart? Reagan doesn...
That Reagan believes Gorbachev is far removed from Lenin is plain. The friendship with Gorbachev, he admits, is real. "There is good chemistry between us," Reagan says. "I think progress has been made by us. I think that through this succession of summits there is a much better understanding. I think we made gains this time...
...should be skeptical of Gorbachev's claims that the horrors of the Stalin regime were an aberration from Soviet socialism. After all, Gorbachev and his colleagues still glorify Lenin, who effected one-party dictatorship, the subordination of justice to expediency, and the use of terror as an instrument of control...
...contrary Russian view, from Tolstoy through Lenin, is that history is mainly forces and factors. "In historical events great men -- so called -- are but the labels that serve to give a name to an event," Tolstoy wrote in War and Peace, "and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself." Herein lies another irony: just as Reagan's romantic view overstates the role that individuals can play in shaping history, the Russian view probably understates Gorbachev's personal potential...