Word: leninization
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...Half a century before Lenin was born, omniscient Napoleon Bonaparte was concerned with Red revolutionism to the East. He turned his back on Britain, and valiantly drove his troops into a cruel Russian winter in a glorious effort to thwart the future threat of monolithic Communism...
...better to sniff the French dung for a while than eat China's all our lives," he is said to have remarked at the time. But even before Dienbienphu, Ho had spotted "American imperialism," in Lenin's classically Communist thinking, as the "main adversary...
...have written such a book, even for the author's private amusement, seems foolhardy. Lampooning the proletariat was unpardonable heresy, and Translator Michael Glenny suggests a fouler crime against the state: the figure of Bulgakov's too clever professor, he thinks, may be a caricature of Lenin. Obviously, Bulgakov was courageous; he wrote with rare fury for the rest of his life, muffled but not silenced by censors. But the evidence of The Heart of a Dog makes it questionable how clearly he saw things, at least in 1925. To Bulgakov, the proletarian state seemed vulgar, mindless...
...armed police stormed it. The Italian Communist Party, through Theoretician Giorgio Amendola, did its best to explain the workers' failure to support student power. Reproving the students' "anarchism" and "old barricade spirit," Amendola urged young rebels to channel their energy toward the workers and noted that Lenin himself had warned "not to play with insurrection...
...opted out of World War I. At his trial, Savinkov himself testified that he did not know exactly what the money was to be used for, and even the official Soviet history of Czechoslovakia published in 1960 did not accuse Masaryk, a gentle, scholarly man, of plotting to kill Lenin. The charge was clearly a clumsy canard thrown in to aid Moscow's psychological warfare being waged against the Dubcek regime...