Word: leninization
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Brussels Fleabag. After banishment came foreign exile. Traveling on forged passports, using such names as Meyer, Petrov and Jordanoff, Lenin lived as a cafe conspirator in the West, spending long hours in the great libraries of Europe. Occasionally, he slipped back into Russia and out again. From the beginning, the Marxists were rent by savage quarrels. As soon as three or more gathered together, they divided into left, center and right. The "European" wing, under the German Karl Kautsky, who was savagely denounced for seeking to "reform" Marx, eventually evolved into today's democratic socialists. The Russian wing, under...
...finally brought down the czarist regime, to be replaced by a provisional government under the liberal-minded Prince Lvov, and then by Socialist Revolutionary Alexander Kerensky. Feverishly Lenin, then living in Zurich, worked to get back to Russia. The government did not want him. Lenin, who had already received $10 million from the German government to further the revolution, again turned to Berlin. Since the Germans knew that he wanted Russia to conclude peace at all costs, they sent him to Russia in the celebrated special train...
...sped across Germany, Lenin telegraphed orders to his lieutenants. In Stockholm, there was a hasty meeting with Red agents, and time to buy an overcoat and a pair of shoes. Next evening, at twilight, the train pulled into St. Petersburg's dingy Finland Station, and Lenin stepped to the platform, unsure whether he was to be welcomed or arrested...
Several of his followers had reached Petersburg before him. They got together a large crowd of soldiers, sailors and workers, whose fluttering red banners were lit up by searchlights. To full-throated cheers Lenin delivered a speech at the station, another in the street outside, a third from the balcony of Ksheshinskaya Palace, former home of the Czar's mistress and now Bolshevik headquarters...
...speeches gave Maxim Gorky the impression of the "cold glitter of steel shavings," from which arose "with amazing simplicity the perfectly fashioned figure of truth." Even when they knew that he was lying, many men implicitly believed Lenin. He stunned his followers when he denounced the Kerensky government as the bourgeois enemy and vowed to bring it down. Then Lenin proceeded to demonstrate "the fine art of insurrection...