Word: leninism
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From Kremlin bigwigs to local apparatchiki, Soviet leaders are now conceding what Western experts like Hedrick Smith--Moscow correspondent for the New York Times from 1971 to 1974--have known for decades: Lenin's experiment is a bust...
...news agency D.P.A., Zhivkov, who is facing corruption and embezzlement charges and lives near Sofia under house arrest, renounced his Communist past and denied any responsibility for crimes committed under his rule. "If I had to do it over again, I would not even be a Communist, and if Lenin were alive today, he would say the same thing," said Zhivkov, who suggested that Bulgaria should now link its fortunes to capitalism and "strike a deal" with the U.S. "as soon as possible...
Parliamentary Deputies had assembled last week to hear the contents of the revolution-red binder in Gorbachev's hands: nothing less than a plan to make over the system bequeathed by Lenin, salvage a once proud country from chaos and lead it to the semblance of a Western-style market economy. Even before Gorbachev began to speak, however, his proposal had become a lightning rod for protest from radical reformers. In a week in which the Soviet President had won the Nobel Peace Prize for changing the world, he was fated to be awarded criticism at home for not worrying...
...founder of the Soviet state wrote those words in 1922, but they were only made public last April -- at a time when Lenin's heirs were finally giving up their long antireligion battle. Perhaps the most startling evidence of the change was the celebration of the first Eucharist since 1918 in the Kremlin's Cathedral of the Assumption, barely three weeks ago. While Anatoli Lukyanov, the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, and Ivan Silayev, prime minister of the Russian republic, and other Communist dignitaries looked on, Alexi II, Patriarch of All Russia, conducted services in the formerly pre-eminent church...
...became official. Culminating a two-year thaw, the Soviet parliament passed a new Law on Freedom of Conscience by a vote of 341 to 2. The statute bestowed great opportunities on believers, estimated to number as many as 131 million, who have maintained their faith despite the oppression of Lenin and his successors. But with freedom come some grievous problems, principally shortages of money, trained clergy and just about everything else needed for religious restoration. At the same time, ugly sectarian conflicts, also long repressed, are boiling up within and among religious factions...