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REED COVERED THE ACTION on the Eastern Front during the First World War for New Masses, then sneaked across German lines to Leningrad in 1917. The even-headed leadership of Lenin impressed him and Reed was convinced that the Bolshevik party was the only group which could safely navigate the Russian people around the dangers of counter-revolution. There are some indications that in the last months of his life Reed became somewhat disenchanted with certain elements of the Communist leadership. Zineview, the head of the Comintern for which Reed was working, struck him as particularly arrogant and tyrannical...
There is no little irony in the fact that one of Taylor's chief admirers was Lenin. In a notable speech in June 1919, Lenin urged "the study and teaching of the Taylor system and its systematic trial and adaptation." The logic of efficiency knows no social boundaries...
...shortfall, the second major Soviet grain crisis in the past four years, raises a basic question that has bedeviled the commissars since Lenin's days: Why is the Soviet Union unable to feed itself? U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz last week had a ready explanation: "There is no greater folly than to try to dictate agriculture policy from the political arena. Centralized decision making doesn't work-it never has and it never will...
Brezhnev's speech struck most listeners as moderate and conciliatory. It was devoid of any crowing about Soviet policy, except for one gratuitous reference to Lenin as an early proponent of peaceful coexistence. Of the conference results, he declared, "There are neither victors nor vanquished, winners nor losers ... It is a gain for all who cherish peace and security on our planet...
...stability are not too good, since most collective leaderships have been the victims of their members' quests for unshared power. Octavian outmaneuvered his fellow triumvirs-Mark Antony and Lepidus-to become undisputed ruler of ancient Rome, and Soviet history is littered with collective leaderships that failed. Following Lenin's death, Stalin served on two consecutive triumvirates, each time ruthlessly eliminating his supposedly coequal partners. After Stalin, the various members of the Kremlin's new collective kept vying with each other for supremacy until Nikita Khrushchev emerged...