Word: leninization
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...leaders of an anti-Chamoun uprising that disintegrated after U.S. Marines landed on Lebanon's beaches to restore order. Jumblatt has generally taken a strong socialist and pro-Palestinian line. Although he is nobody's man by any means, Jumblatt is admired in Moscow: he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1973 and the Order of Lenin...
...first time, hundreds of American intellectuals flirted with the ideas of Marxism, and a good number of them became outright converts; some even joined the Communist Party. Impressed by the imagination and comprehensiveness of Marx's thought, these Americans were probably even more moved by the stunning triumph of Lenin's band of professional revolutionaries in Russia, a country that in many ways seemed least likely of all to lead the march of history...
...time correspondent there. Unlike the average American family in the Soviet Union, which retreats into its own artificial Western womb, the Schecter family tried to immerse itself in Soviet life as fully as possible. Now six years later, reclining leisurely in his Claverly suite and surrounded by posters of Lenin and other Russian souvenirs, Steve Schecter reminisces about his days in Moscow...
...most heated controversy that Schecter had took place over his handling of a book about Lenin. In a class one time, he placed the book on the floor, and an acquaintance warned him to pick it up, because "that book is about our great leader, Lenin." Schecter refused, and the two practically came to blows. "How can you take something like that so seriously? You're just programmed like everyone else into thinking that Lenin and communism are the most important things in the world. Why don't you wake up?" he screamed at his adversary...
...Maigret is a bourgeois hero, a symbol of the unpretentious common man; he uses no complicated forensics, no tricks of reason, his habits are ordinary--his only asset is a persistent, though mediocre intellect. Judging from the 300 million copies Simenon's works have sold in 43 languages (excepting Lenin, the most translated oeuvre in all literature), Maigret is a phenomenon worth considering...