Word: leninization
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...material terms, the Revolution has succeeded fairly in many areas. Today Lenin's heirs preside over formidable superpower that after six decades lumbers about the world in all the panoply and menace of one of history's great empires. Some historians argue, plausibly enough, that Russia with its vast resources, would have developed just as impressively or better, under quite different management Nevertheless, the Russian Empire that the Bolsheviks inherited in 1917 was a fairly primitive vastness, although some industrialization had begun. Despite its bloody civil war (1918-22) Stalin's savage purges...
...people are so much better informed now and probably would not stand for such mass terror. Then, the poet Anna Akhmatova wrote: "The stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, be loved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." Life under Lenin's current successor has relaxed, grown somewhat less bleak, but there still seems no prospect that the mythology will be fulfilled: that, in the fullness of time, the state will begin to wither away and leave only the classless, abundant workers' paradise. On the contrary, the stolid bureaucracy...
...lest you think this is a story of radical baiting in Cambridge, circa 1969--which is easy enough to do--it's not. Sayles has an astoundingly accurate ear for speech, in this case the speech of 20-year old Americans in 1969 trying to sound like Lenin in Zurich in 1917. Skillfully interwoven with the story of Hunter McNatt's search for his son are also the stories of people who run across one or the other along the way, and their speech is wonderfully correct. Vinny and Dom, his Boston cops, are a little too pat ("Pahk...
Through tempests the sunrays of freedom have cheered us. Along the new path where great Lenin did lead. Be true to the people, thus Stalin has reared us. Inspired us to labor and valorous deed...
...true to the people, thus Lenin has reared us. Inspired us to labor and valorous deeds...