Word: leninization
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...also unwrinkled and at rest. Unlike at Chou En-lai's funeral last January, when only an urn containing the late Premier's ashes was displayed, the Chairman's body has been brought before the Chinese people for a final heroic display. Many believed that, like Lenin, Mao would be embalmed and enshrined in a special mausoleum. As they would before an emperor of old -or a father-the Chinese wept and bowed before Chairman Mao in reverence, showing a shattering sense of loss...
...think that you alone will do and that everything done by others is no good, as without you the world would not turn and there would be no party . . . There is no need to fear for the death of anyone. Whose death would be a great loss? Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, are they not all dead? The revolution must still go on . . . We must be prepared at all times to leave our posts and we must always be ready with successors...
...ardent Socialist Revolutionary. In 1917 he helped draw up the electoral laws for the provisional government headed by Alexander Kerensky and, as Vishniak later wrote, served in "the only freely elected Parliament in the history of Russia," which lasted just twelve hours before it was dissolved by Lenin. Escaping from the Bolsheviks, Vishniak fled to Paris and, after the beginning of World War II, to the U.S. In the course of his long career, Vishniak published 22 books and numerous articles in Russian, French and English...
More and more people-not only in Italy but throughout Western Europe -are convinced that the Communists are sincere in their democratic protestations. Others, though, continue to be suspicious of Berlinguer, despite their admiration for his personal qualities. They remember Lenin's cynical observation about capitalists who are (or were) so naive that they would eagerly sell the rope with which they would be hung. But even some of those who accept Communist sincerity also recall the Prague Spring, and wonder how long a Communist Party in power in Italy could survive if Moscow disagreed with its programs...
...Well, a few among the young voters," admitted Gelsomino, a bit annoyed at his friend's needling. "You should know that youths are impatient. Some of them complain that our line is only reformist. But as Lenin said, 'Extreme militancy is an infantile quality.' Of course, you have your problems too. The bishops' declaration ordering people to toe the line is going to hurt you more than it will help...