Word: leninization
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Congresses have frequently served as watersheds in Soviet history. At the Tenth Congress in 1921, Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy, which for a time allowed the peasants to sell their produce on a free market. At the 15th, six years later, Stalin consolidated his hold on power by purging Leon Trotsky from the party. At the 20th in 1956, Nikita Khrushchev delivered the famed "secret speech" that started the wave of destalinization...
...that he bought the outstanding shares in himself and dissolved the corporation. His mature works, especially illustrations for volumes of Shakespeare, Melville, Whitman and Chaucer, have become collectors' items. An admirer of the Soviet Union, he had his passport revoked in 1950; when the Soviets awarded him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967, he donated $10,000 of it to the Viet Cong. But, exclaimed Kent, "thank God I don't live there. If I did, and didn't trim my sails, I'd be liquidated...
Whereas earlier work such as Max Weber's theories of bureaucracy or Lenin's economic doctrines were the results of individual research, most of the recent breakthroughs emanated from research institutes or "think tanks." Such organizations and government interdisciplinary institutes fostered an increasing number of advances...
What constitutes a major advancement are a "now perception of relationships" and a "substantial impact that leads to further knowledge." the study explained. Amongst the 62 innovations cited were the works of Mao Tse-tung, Gandhi, Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Lenin and Henbert Marcuse...
...objections was that the NLF is supplied by two "revisionist" powers: the Soviet Union and North Vietnam. But this type of guilt-by-association-true or not-is completely inappropriate in the case of poor, struggling countries under military siege, and does not even concur with Lenin's writings. "What it amounts to," said Ed Goldman, a Columbia student who quit PL late last year, "is that a bunch of white middle-class students are saying that a national liberation organization that has liberated four-fifths of Vietnam is selling...