Word: leninist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BURDEN OF THE PAST. Russians already have a great deal of trouble reading the road map of their past. The notion of historical determinism may have been drummed into their heads in courses on Marxist-Leninist dogma, but they have never stopped believing that history moves in a circle, not a straight line. Ask a wrinkled babushka selling vodka on the street about Yeltsin's chances of success, and she will leapfrog back in memory over Mikhail Gorbachev's ill- fated perestroika to recall the doomed attempt by Nikita Khrushchev to break the stranglehold of the Stalinist past. An intellectual...
...calculus of world politics, the Soviet Union had only one credible claim to superpower status -- its immense military strength. The country's domestic economy was always a shambles, and its Marxist-Leninist ideology has long been threadbare. But for decades Moscow relentlessly built up its armed forces to defend communism at home and advance its cause abroad. The military had first call on the nation's resources, and civilians got what was left...
...Building a Leninist Revolutionary Party"--a Spartacus Youth Club talk with Pam Elliott of the Spartacist League. Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. in William James Hall. For information call...
When the burden of these disappointments became too great for him, he decided he could no longer live with them. He was a man of honor, integrity and intelligence. He was devoted to Marxist-Leninist ideals, taking great pride that he owned little more than the clothes on his back. His narrow view of capitalism sparked our most vigorous argument...
...biggest mistake the Emergency Committee made was not to kill both Gorbachev and Yeltsin. But the plotters craved constitutional legitimacy for their illegitimate act and could not bring themselves to be ruthless about it. "They may have had Leninist nostalgia," says Luttwak, "but they didn't have a Leninist temperament -- which is to shoot the bastards...