Word: leninization
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...effect of this discipline can already be seen in Russia. The cities are miraculously clean; few young people go to church, although everyone seems to worship Lenin and Pavlov, she noted. The greatest effect of this discipline, however, has been in the field of education...
...voters turned out for the parliamentary elections to give Gomulka a solid vote of confidence. In the face of growing public disenchantment with the Communist leader, the regime nervously decided on a fair test. There were no vast Communist demonstrations; not a Communist flag, not even a picture of Lenin or Gomulka, was to be seen as the polls opened on the bright winter Sunday morning...
...Assembly, the SRs filled up the center of the hall. On the right were a few scattered Deputies of the "national-bourgeois" groups. On the left sat the Moslem and Ukrainian Socialists, then came the Left SRs and, finally, the Bolsheviks. Lenin was there. Three nights before, while driving through Petrograd, he had been fired on by assassins and the man beside him had been wounded. But he appeared unruffled as he lolled on the steps of the platform, squeezing his hands convulsively together and, with his huge, blazing eyes, surveying the entire hall from one end to the other...
...that night it became clear to Lenin that harassment and threats would not prevent the SR majority from enacting a whole series of resolutions that would have the effect of law. His tactic: an order to the Bolshevik Deputies to walk out of the Assembly. After some hesitation, the Left SRs followed them. In the hall, the sailors and Red soldiers now threw off all restraint. They leaped through the barriers, carried their rifles cocked along the corridors, stormed into the galleries. In their seats the Deputies were motionless, tragically mute. We were isolated from the world, just...
...last word was Lenin's. In an order to his troops that night, he said: "From tomorrow morning on, no one will be allowed into the Tauride Palace." The only freely elected Parliament in the history of Russia had lasted less than a single day. Russia subsided into the Soviet night...