Word: leninization
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...synthetics, Khrushchev said that, with help, Russia by 1971 would have a chemical industry comparable to any that Western countries have taken decades to build. Said he: "It would be stupid to ignore the achievements of foreign science only because they were made in a capitalist country. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin did not consider it a shame to learn from the capitalists...
...Absolute. Beginning as a divinity student in a Tiflis Orthodox seminary, Stalin lost his belief in God. According to Chayefsky, Stalin was further desolated and left with a desperate sense of meaninglessness when his first wife died agonizingly. As a Bolshevik revolutionary, he found new meaning in life; in Lenin he found...
...support this idea, by now stale, of Communism as a surrogate religion, Chayefsky feels free to rewrite the early history of the Russian Revolution in the best tradition of Soviet historiographers. He makes Stalin out to be Lenin's right-hand strongman, which he was not, while also creating the illusion that Stalin was capable of nimble ideological disputes with Lenin. Trotsky (Alvin Epstein) is portrayed as a kind of effete dancing master and relegated to a stage-struck walk-on part in the Revolution, so that no playgoer would ever guess that he was looking...
...Josef D. incessantly lectures and never electrifies. Chayefsky misdirects his own work, injecting group chorales and Brechtian-inspired political satire in which inane bourgeois messily cut their own throats onstage. Peter Falk's Stalin is a menacing thug with a will of granite, but Luther Adler's Lenin is too mellow and self-questioning for the single-minded intellectual doctrinaire who could be just as implacable as Stalin. To recreate the rationale of tyranny should not be to forget that for men like Lenin and Stalin, power is its own reward...
Mail-Order History. Between World Wars, Collector Vincent recorded everyone from Lenin to Stalin to Wilson to F.D.R. He developed the famous wartime V-disc for G.I.s to "write" home, set up the multilingual sound systems at the Nuremburg trials and the U.N. Out of all this came a memorable 1950 record, Hark! The Years, narrated by Fredric March, which has been a collector's item selling for as much as $75. Happily, the Michigan State audiovisual center has just reissued...