Word: leninism
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...seems sincere when he talks about his desire for peace. But you must always remember that their spokesmen back in the time of Lenin, and maybe even Lenin himself, did not want war either. They believed that they would win without...
...with righteousness. The store of imperial riches has only increased with time. The Kremlin and Its Treasures (Rizzoli; 356 pages; $75) is a gilded album of Russian history recalled through the voluptuous chambers of the czars, the rococo throne of Catherine I and the spare, careful quarters of the Lenin family...
...Lenin's white statue seemed to gaze down expectantly on Mikhail Gorbachev as the Soviet leader walked to the podium of the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, - opened a thick folder and began his 2-hr. 41-min. speech. Between Lenin and Gorbachev lay seven decades of Soviet history, much of it officially ignored or obfuscated -- and nearly all of it haunted by the ghost of Joseph Stalin. But Gorbachev had insisted there should be no "blank pages" in his country's past. Now, in an address marking the 70th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, he had an ideal...
Gorbachev cited other historical "nonpersons." Leon Trotsky, an ally of Lenin's who was exiled by Stalin and assassinated by a Soviet agent in 1940, received a brief mention -- but only as a power-hungry schemer "who always vacillated and cheated." More fortunate was Nikolai Bukharin, another close Lenin aide who ran afoul of Stalin and was executed as a spy in 1938. Gorbachev credited Bukharin, who supported Lenin's free market-oriented New Economic Policy and opposed forced collectivization, with helping to frustrate Trotsky's ambitions. Yet Gorbachev felt compelled to cite Lenin's reservations about Bukharin's ideological...
Whatever the differences in the Soviet and Chinese approaches to reform, both Moscow and Beijing are determined to pin a Marxist label on their economic experiments. Lenin's decision to revive the private sector during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s figures prominently in the new Soviet economics. Beijing ideologists invoke the theory that China is at a "primary level of socialism" to keep Marxist dogma intact. True reform is meant to provide more bread and steel for the masses, not merely bird whistles...