Word: leninization
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...long run, the pull of personal ambition, the bent of Communist doctrine, and the lessons of Soviet experience (both Lenin and Stalin engraved personal dictatorship on the heart of the Communist state), are likely to impel one or another power-grabber to get too grabby. For the time being, however, Khrushchev, Bulganin & Co. seem to be resolved to make their committee work. Theirs is a community of interest in a good thing that they want to hang on to; a scuffle for power that jeopardized their police state might be the end of them all. One thing in their favor...
Died. Professor Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich, 82, so-so Russian writer (Recollections of the October Revolution), who advanced his Communist Party career as an expert on urban guerilla warfare, served Lenin faithfully as private secretary, survived purges and Stalin to become one of the U.S.S.R.'s oldest Old Bolsheviks; in Moscow...
Gandhi we followed another path," said Nehru, "we were influenced by the example of Lenin." Next day, amid showers of flowers, the emotional Nehru flew off to Warsaw. "I am leaving a part of my heart behind," said he. After Warsaw he would fly, by way of Rome, to London, where he is expected for a gossipy weekend at Chequers with Prime Minister Eden...
Next morning Nehru, wearing a white rose, laid a wreath at the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square, and set out on the standard Kremlin tour, interrupted at intervals by "passing" groups of happy Russian tourists, who just chanced to have bouquets of flowers to give to him. In the Kremlin armory Nehru lingered over a small dirk of Indian craftsmanship, once owned by Peter the Great...
...unusual procession also gave many Muscovites their first closeup of their own bigwigs, usually only to be seen high atop Lenin's tomb. Unrehearsed and unexpectedly, there was loud applause for the cars of the U.S. and British ambassadors as they passed...