Word: leninization
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Despite the controversy of future events, 1905 was clearly Trotsky's year. At the time of the St. Petersburg uprising, he was 26 and highly regarded for his political journalism. ("The Pen is here," cried Lenin's wife when a fugitive Trotsky barged into her London apartment at dawn.) While other Russian socialists spent themselves in factional squabbles abroad ("Deal with Russians," said Marx, "and all hell breaks loose"), Trotsky made his way back to St. Petersburg and the action...
...made poet laureate of the revolution after he shot himself in 1930 in despair. His posthumous canonization was a bit of Stalinist genius, for while he was alive, Mayakovsky had consistently been at odds with the Communist part. On receiving an autographed copy of one of Mayakovsky's books, Lenin remarked, "You know, this is quite interesting literature. It's a peculiar kind of communism, it's hooligan communism...
...leader of the world's most powerful nation meeting with the ruler of the most populous. Never, perhaps, have two men who so dramatically epitomize the conflicting forces of modern history ever sat as equals at one negotiating table: Mao, the self-styled heir of Marx and Lenin and revolutionary leader of China's revolutionary masses; Nixon, elected spokesman of the world's richest, most advanced capitalist society and once the archetypal Cold Warrior. Even if nothing happens at their meeting-and no dramatic breakthrough is in sight-the reopening of a U.S.-China dialogue has fundamentally...
There are other very good scenes: Nicholas on his knees apologizing to Alexandra for abdicating; Lenin's triumphant entry into the St. Petersburg train station where he has come to seize the power that was "lying on the streets waiting to be picked up;" the beginning of the First World War just before Intermission, where pictures of Europe's diplomats and monarchs disolve into each other to the sound of marching soldiers and national anthems...
...Hawkins also turn in good performances. Tom Baker is very fine as the lewd and mysterious Rasputin whose deep blue eyes meant the ruin of many good diplomats and the violation of even more young women. All the characters possess a remarkable physical similarity to their historical conterparts; in Lenin's case the resemblance is phenomenal...