Word: leninistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partisan fighters in World War II (including five expelled from the party by Togliatti and 14 with expulsions pending). These were the militants: they had read their Marx and Lenin; they believe in the inevitability of violence. They issued a manifesto accusing the party directorate of abandoning the Marxist-Leninist line, of giving up the fight against capitalism and of behaving not like revolutionaries, but like reformed Socialists who believe that Socialism may be attained by parliamentary means. Recalled the 39: "During that period after the war, when some of our comrades tried to collaborate with other parties, they . . . were...
Rewriting the Past. At the Congress, Nikita Khrushchev, clearly the nearest to being the new "one man," led the other bosses in condemning "the cult of the one man" and playing up the "Leninist" principle of "collective leadership" (TIME, Feb. 27). But in the long hours of speeches that followed there were interesting variations...
Milk & Honey. "War is not fatalistically inevitable," proclaimed Khrushchev, blandly dismissing one of Lenin's most insistent themes. The first task of the Communist Parties, said Khrushchev, is "to pursue steadfastly the Leninist policy of peaceful coexistence between different states, irrespective of their social systems." Added Khrushchev disarmingly: "This is not a tactical move but a fundamental principle." But coexistence. Soviet style, is only a means to an end-"the world-transforming . . . complete triumph of Communism...
...employment, the planners say, with wages up 30%; there will be 50% more technicians and specialists and more than twice as many hospital beds. Airports are to be reconstructed, air freight is to be doubled, and new fast passenger planes are to ply feeder routes. But, faithful to the Leninist dream (in Russia, electric light bulbs are ironically called Ilyich after Lenin's patronymic), the big story was electric power: an overall increase from 160 to 320 billion kilowatts. No mention was made of the larger atomic-energy target for 1960, but an atomic-powered transarctic liner with special...
...only material basis of socialism," he said. "This Lenin line was followed under Stalin's leadership, is being followed at present, and will be followed in future." He branded the more-consumer-goods faction as saboteurs. "This is a grave mistake, alien to the spirit of Marxist-Leninist reasoning ... It is a belching of rightist deviation, a belching of views hostile to Leninism which were once propagated by Rykov and Bukharin."* Though Khrushchev did not identify just who could have belched such dreadful views, all his hearers knew that among those who had was Khrushchev himself. And another...