Word: leninization
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After the Bolsheviks came to power, Sorokin was sentenced to death. In 1918, imprisoned in Northern Russia and waiting for his execution, he learned that Lenin had personally intervened to save his life. Sorokin returned to the University of Petrograd whose department of Sociology he had founded...
...suggestion of Bolivian President René Barrientos that Bolivia's Marxist Prisoner Régis Debray be swapped for Castro Prisoner Huber Matos (TIME, Jan. 12), Castro offered to release 100 political prisoners in return for the body of Che Guevara. He may have in mind something like Lenin's tomb...
...White House, the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and Congress, a growing number of policymakers are asking why the U.S. has to concern itself with gold at all, and whether the world's richest nation might not be wise to cast its currency loose from a metal that Lenin once said was fit only to build public toilets. Behind this question is the sound conviction that the dollar, backed by the powerful U.S. economy, is not as bad as gold. At home and abroad, most monetary experts believe that the gold-exchange system is on the way out. The question...
...stereotype of the dashing, trench-coated foreign correspondent; of a stroke; in Abington, Pa. "Spike" Hunt lived and wrote in the same style-first person singular. Beginning with World War I, he embarked on a Cook's tour of hot spots and the men who caused them-Lenin founding his Bolshevik regime, Pancho Villa hiding in Mexico's mountains, Sun Yat-sen ensconced in China, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk embattled in Turkey; during World War II, he renewed an intimate working friendship with Douglas MacArthur and later wrote a worshipful biography. He got scoops...
...Reed was very busy talking to Trotsky and Lenin, attending meetings, and observing events in the streets of Moscow during the ten days referred to in his book's title," Lamont said...