Word: leninization
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After his old editor Bukharin was finally liquidated in the great 1938 Moscow show trial, Soloviev was sentenced to "minus six," i.e., he was forbidden to live in Russia's six largest cities. He appealed to Lenin's widow and, through her, to Malenkov, with no result. Eventually, Soloviev was drafted and sent to Finland. In World War II he was assigned to a special task force that pulled Russian forces out from behind the advancing German armies and reassembled them for combat. Soloviev himself was pulled out of the war when the Nazis captured him during their...
...talked at a Russian scientific meeting about a paper by an English astronomer and a German physicist who suggested that the energy radiated by the sun and other stars was caused by reactions between atomic nuclei. A nonscientist, Nikolai Bukharin, a top Communist official in the post-Lenin era, approached Gamow. He asked Gamow if nuclear reactions like those of the sun could be created on earth and put to some use. Bukharin even offered to turn over the Leningrad electrical works to Gamow for a few hours every night for experimentation. Gamow replied that no practical application was possible...
...cavalry dash to the gathering. Among the diamond-studded, gold-starred military uniforms, Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was a small, undistinguished figure in civilian clothes, but to remind the audience where the power lay, a huge banner had been hung across the stage: "Under the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, under the leadership of the Communist Party-forward to the victory of Communism...
Karpovich admitted that soviet censorship has changed greatly since the Revolution and is now much stricter than it was under Lenin. He maintained, however, that the basic policy has been the same, and pointed out that as early as 1918 the Bolshevik regime abolished the study of philosophy in all universities and substituted that of dialectical materialism...
...Lenin and Stalin constantly emphasized the distinction between the two. 'The party,' said Stalin, 'is not and cannot be identified with state power...