Word: leninization
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Baldwin sets out to popularize a particularly complicated and immediate problem. His role is analogous to Edmund Wilson's attempt in the 1930's, to introduce an audience, confused by the depression, to the complexities of Marx and Lenin. But unlike popularizers of academic subjects, Baldwin is discussing men and not their books. While Wilson was essentially a scholar, Baldwin is essentially a novelist. His problem is to bring to an uninitiated audience a complicated form of first-hand experience; to present his novelist's perceptions in a medium where they will have immediate political consequence (without oversimplifying his observations...
...party officials were stunned by the outbreak, not only because of the sudden violence, but because the rioters revealed sophisticated political attitudes that made Moscow suspect the existence of an organized underground. Scores of youths tore up their party cards in public, others shouted such slogans as "Back to Lenin" and "Down with the Deceiver." Even the local army garrison of Russians sympathized with the rioters and refused to fire into the protesting crowd. The soldiers who did were central Asian Uzbeks and Kirghizes, who had less objection to shooting Russians...
...history is any guide, the dreamers are in for sharp disappointment. Nikita Khrushchev is as flexible a maneuverer as any Communist who has studied Lenin's line: "If you are not able to adapt yourself, if you are not ready to crawl in the mud on your belly, you are not a revolutionist but a chatterbox." Occasional appearances to the contrary, Khrushchev is no chatterbox. Over Cuba he had to do some crawling, but it will not be easy to keep him down...
...Chip" Bohlen, about to leave for Paris as U.S. ambassador there, supplied a significant clue. Talking to Kennedy, he recalled a Lenin adage that Khrushchev is fond of quoting: If a man sticks out a bayonet and strikes mush, he keeps on pushing. But when he hits cold steel, he pulls back...
...Americans who knew the facts, Moscow seemed eerily normal. Newspapers kept complaining about poor food production, couples on crowded dance floors kept doing their bunny hug and wishing they could find out something about the twist, soldiers with their girls wandered to the Lenin mausoleum to hear the Kremlin bells toll midnight...