Word: leninization
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...seems like a typical commune, except that the farm hands are all from the city - 200 schoolteachers, office workers and party cadres who have gone off to the countryside for six months of consciousness raising, Chinese style. The encounter groups center about the works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Chairman...
...cadres share a small concrete-floored room. Each person has a small bed and a towel, which hangs from a clothesline stretched across the ceiling. The only decorations are the regulations and daily schedule pasted to the wall. There is a bookcase made from wooden boxes filled with Marx, Lenin and the collected works of Mao. A small table in the middle of the room serves as the study center...
Medvedev singles out a number of people who have made notable efforts to discredit Solzhenitsyn. For instance, Culture Minister Yekaterina Furtseva helped prevent Solzhenitsyn from receiving the 1964 Lenin Prize for Literature, one of the Soviet Union's most prestigious awards. Medvedev also attacks Victor Louis, a roaming Soviet correspondent noted for providing leaks on Soviet policy shifts to the Western press. The author describes him as a "special agent of the KGB." Louis, claims Medvedev, planted a stolen copy of Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward with the Russian emigre publication Posev, which is based in West Germany...
...Free University and the "Red" French universities of Nanterre and Vincennes but also at Catholic institutions like Belgium's Louvain or Nijmegen in Holland. Publishers have found a vigorous market for works by and about a variety of Marxists: not only such dogmatic mainstream interpreters as Lenin and Mao, but a host of differing theoreticians, ranging from Leon Trotsky to former Czechoslovak Communist Party Leader Alexander Dubcek, who was toppled in 1968 for championing a liberalized Marxism. But "when in ideological trouble," says Manfred Gotthard, a West Berlin student, "we turn to Marx. The answer is always there...
...East bloc nations, where Communist dogmatism simply will not tolerate what one Polish theoretician dismisses as "Marxist dead talk." By and large, students in Poland and Hungary are baffled by the enthusiasm of their counterparts in the West for Marxism. In fact, to some young East Europeans Marx and Lenin are not exactly household words. Asked to identify them, a girl in Belgrade pondered for a moment and then guessed: "Two brothers...