Word: leninization
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...messianism with Hegelian and Marxian determinism, the idea that vast and blind historical forces sweep across the world's stage without important regard to personalities. But of course that Marxist thought is invalidated by Marxist his tory ? the crucial "heroic" role played by men like Marx himself, and Lenin and Stalin. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggests that "men have lived who did what no substitute could ever have done; their intervention set history on one path rather than another. If this is so, the old maxim There are no indispensable men' would seem another amiable fallacy. There is, then...
...Nixon, Mrs. Brezhnev had a bouquet of roses. Nixon spent five minutes shaking hands with a smiling crowd of about 500, most of them bused in from nearby offices, and then rode with Brezhnev in a black Zil limousine the 15 miles to the Kremlin. The route, mainly along Lenin Avenue, was decked with American flags, as it had been in 1972, but crowds were deliberately kept to a polite minimum by Soviet police. Less than an hour after they landed, Brezhnev himself was showing the Nixons their suite at the Kremlin residence...
Very Tough. The first working meeting came that evening, when the President was ushered into Brezhnev's Kremlin office for an hour-and-ten-minute session under a picture of Lenin, with Brezhnev's interpreter as the only extra person. Later the two men went to St. Vladimir Hall for a reception attended by top Soviet and American officials. The Russians were lined up on one side of the room, the Americans on the other, and Brezhnev took Nixon first down the Russian side and then down the American. Kissinger stood at the end, and when...
That night he and Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig, his staff chief, strolled through the Kremlin grounds talking softly in the dark with no worry of intrusion from photographers or constituents. The three men walked by the apartment where Lenin had lived when he came to the Kremlin to direct the revolution and formation of a government. They went by the modern auditorium built beneath the ancient church spires with gilded onion domes. Nixon noted how old and new were fitted together behind the Kremlin walls. He paused a moment In the discussion to take another look...
...government had taken one of its periodic swings to the extreme right, as an exile. His first major novel, The President, a searing indictment of a Guatemalan dictator, was followed by a trilogy blasting the imperialism of the United Fruit Co. in Latin America. In 1966 he received the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union...