Word: leninization
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...went to Russia in the 1920s, intending to set up a field hospital. But he quickly realized that the Russians needed food more than medicine and arranged to import grain from the U.S. in exchange for Soviet furs, hides and caviar. His success won him an introduction to Lenin, who granted the young American a pencil-manufacturing concession. In 1930, after the climate for Western capitalists had turned increasingly cold, he sold off his thinning enterprises to the Soviet government and left the country with a fortune in czarist art treasures that he had bought with his profits...
...reminded Soviet officials of the way he had made a fortune in their country in the 1920s, saying: "I have a great debt to the Russian people, and though I am an old man with not many years left, I will pay it." Topping all, Hammer claimed that Lenin had died looking at a present from him. When the flabbergasted Soviets asked how he could possibly know that, Hammer blandly replied that Lenin had died at his desk, on which there was only one object: a bronze statue, given by Hammer, depicting a monkey sitting on a book by Darwin...
...fact, Lenin died in bed at his home in Gorki, and his Kremlin desk, which is shown to tourists supposedly in the state he left it, is crowded with all manner of objects...
...Ruski Boulevard, in the heart of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, looms one of the oddest monuments in the Communist world: a huge equestrian statue of Alexander II, Czar of All the Russias from 1855 to 1881. While Moscow abounds with likenesses of Lenin and Peking with those of Mao, Sofia has chosen to preserve an image of the Emperor who helped liberate Bulgaria from Turkish rule in 1878. The Bulgarians still feel that they owe a historic debt of gratitude to Russia's rulers...
Therefore they, who had long been "much conditioned by their bourgeois background," were required, during and after the Cultural Revolution, to study Marxism, Leninism, and Mao Tse-tung Thought. How irrelevant and what a bore, some of them at first supposed. But they found that, even after only a first look at Mark's analysis of capitalist society and the class struggle, they were able to see in certain standard book new significance. After reading Lenin on revolution and imperialism, they could no longer teach the familiar material in the same old way, And when they had understood...