Word: leninization
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...watched four blocks of the parade pass. Panther flags. Shouts of "Off the pigs!" The Youth Against War and Fascism under a red banner emblazoned with Lenin's portrait. Maybe they had not heard of the early, ugly Party tyranny that broke the heart of Lenin's romantic young American follower, John Reed. Behind them came another, newer cause, something more to cloud the main issue: "Abolish all abortion laws." That's it, kids. A reverence for life...
...Brezhnev junketed around the country in connection with the Lenin celebrations, he enjoyed a sudden burst of publicity that struck many Western diplomats as extremely unusual. Three times in four days Brezhnev appeared prominently-and usually alone-on Soviet television. Nothing like it had been seen in Russia since Khrushchev's days. While Brezhnev spoke in a Kharkov tractor factory, where he awarded the Order of Lenin to the workers, the cameras flashed back and forth from his face to huge portraits of Lenin hanging in the hall. As sustained applause greeted the very mention of his name...
...scene was symbolic and significant: Soviet leaders gathering solemnly, even reverently last week in Ulyanovsk (formerly Simbirsk), where, 100 years ago, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was born on April 22. They had excellent reason to be reverent and grateful, for their formidable aggregate of power still derives from Lenin's genius and from his achievements as the true architect of Communism. Thus they will invoke his name to legitimize their rule, and adroitly select from his speeches and writings to justify the existing social order. They will cite Lenin to sanctify Russia's quarrel with China, its invasion...
...Lenin Lives!" is an incantation that has been ritualistically repeated in Russia since his death in 1924; during this centennial year, the official worship of the Lenin cult has approached religious delirium. The Russian penchant for excesses aside, the existence of such a mystique should hardly surprise the West. Every nation requires what sociologists term a charter myth, meaning a founding father and a founding ideology. In the Soviet Union, the need for a charter myth has been particularly insistent. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 attempted to destroy every traditional institution-political, religious and economic-that had held Russia together...
Harrington cautioned students to be "realistic about social issues," "Riots are an extremely effective way of influencing voters toward the right," he said. "The American working class is not composed of bronzed proletarians with copies of the Little Lenin Library in their hip pockets...