Word: leninistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this game Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito would be useful. He had made himself something of a hero by breaking loose from Moscow, had even won large-scale aid from the West, but he was still a Communist, and his Yugoslavia was still as monolithically Communist as any Marxist-Leninist could ask. He was the man to consult. He could give prestige to "nationalizing" the satellites, and provide a semblance of genuineness. He could help spot the right kind of leaders for the operation. If all went well, letting off a little anti-Russian steam might even encourage the satellite...
...Pravda drawing attention to the fact that trials are still being held for repatriated pro-Stalin Yugoslavs, hundreds of whom Tito is said to have jailed. A later report that cropped up in Warsaw-that the Soviet Central Committee was circulating a letter describing Tito as no Marxist-Leninist, but one of those hated leftist Social Democrats*-seemed to confirm a growing rift between Yugoslav and Soviet Communists...
...overcoming the "cult of the individual." In his 6,700-word address, he heaped praise on the Chinese Communists for their "transformation of China into a mighty industrial power," made only one reference to Mao-but it was a robust one. Mao, he said, is a "distinguished Marxist-Leninist" who has made a "major contribution to Marxist-Leninist theory." Mao appeared content. In the congress' opening speech, he told the 1,122 party stalwarts: "We must never become arrogant and complacent . . . Humility helps one make progress, whereas conceit makes one blind...
Firmly repudiating Togliatti's suggestion that Russia's present leaders were "co-responsible" with Stalin, the Central Committee advanced for the first time the unsubstantiated claim that there had in fact been a staunch "Leninist core" of the Central Committee and that on occasion it opposed Stalin's arbitrary use of power. "There were certain periods, for instance during the war years when the individual acts of Stalin were sharply restricted . . . Members of the Central Committee and also outstanding Soviet war commanders took over certain sectors of activity in the rear, and at the front made independent...
...remain prisoners of habits and patterns formed in the past [which'] now hinder the deployment of new, wider and more active forms of struggle . . . We must put a stop to this . . . The Leninist combination of adherence to principle and elasticity in the pursuance of the foreign-policy line is the factor which ensures the success of our party in the solution of international tasks...