Word: leninization
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...turn of the century, storming the European art scene, Dr. Atl talked anarchism in Barcelona cafés, argued with Lenin in Lausanne, published an anticlerical newspaper with a young socialist named Benito Mussolini. When the fire of Mexico's revolution was lit in 1911, Dr. Atl returned home to kindle his country's intellectuals. Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros caught the blaze from him. Dr. Atl became Mexico's Fine Arts Minister, promptly shut down the Fine Arts Academy as too traditional. The plutonic painter, more than anyone, pointed Mexican art toward...
Radio stations broadcast and rebroadcast Fidel's speeches, bookstalls are chockablock with tracts on Lenin and Marx and a grey spectrum of repair and fix-it books. "There isn't a magazine, a novel, or anything else worth reading," sighs an exasperated Cuban. "Just this junk about imperialism and stuff on what a happy place Hungary...
...Month selection aimed at romantics. Stefan Possony, political studies director at Stanford's Hoover Institution, will appeal most obviously to believers in the conspiratorial view of history, since his research comes largely from police and foreign office files, ranging from Japan to France, and covering mostly Lenin's life as a fugitive conspirator...
...long lifetime to the study of Russia (The Soviets in World Affairs; Russia, America, and the World), and he soberly weighs those episodes that the other two biographers sometimes accept as fact, offering the pros and cons of each argument. There is, for example, a genuine riddle about Lenin's racial background. Author Payne insists "there was not a drop of Russian blood" in Lenin, and claims his ancestry was German, Swedish and Chuvash (a Tatar tribe living along the Volga), and that it shaped his personality. Without citing any evidence, Author Possony argues that the "evidence indicates" Lenin...
What emerges most strikingly from all three biographies is the awesome power of a single and single-minded man to change the course of history. If the Kaiser had flatly refused to let Lenin cross wartime Germany and enter Russia, if the Kerensky government had succeeded in arresting and executing Lenin (as he fully expected it to try to do), would the Bolsheviks now be merely a footnote to history? Not the least of the paradoxes is the fact that Communism, which teaches the inevitability of historical forces and the impotence of the individual in swaying them, owes its conquest...