Word: leninization
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...even though this Proletcult school was doomed to fail, it did succeed in developing a more literate race, more susceptible to books and also, propaganda. In the 1920's, with his country facing an economic breakdown, Lenin instituted a New Economic Policy (NEP), a sort of free enterprise economy. Coinciding with this economic easing of control, there was a new boom in creativity. Russian writers began to experiment with different types of forms, visited other countries, and even wrote books about other countries...
...Soviet Union. Both countries have always desired control over Outer Mongolia, Kores, and Japan. Russia, moreover, had its sights on China-held Manchuria. Ideological arguments before 1953 were rather serious also. China claimed that the basic philosophy of the country was Mao's interpretation of Marx and Lenin; Stalin was just the ruler of a friendly country. This of course clashed with Stalin's view of a uniform communism, determined by the Russian leader...
...wanted China as a very close ally. Whatever the reason, beginning with the ascension of Malenkov as Prime Minister, Russia made a number of concessions to the Chinese. Mao began to be treated with much more respect, and his ideological views were accepted as equal to those of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin...
Khrushchev moved on to a more controversial subject, not seeming to mind whose toes his heavy boots trod upon. "Lenin taught that the building of heavy machines, capable of reorganizing agriculture, can be the only material basis of socialism," he said. "This Lenin line was followed under Stalin's leadership, is being followed at present, and will be followed in future." He branded the more-consumer-goods faction as saboteurs. "This is a grave mistake, alien to the spirit of Marxist-Leninist reasoning ... It is a belching of rightist deviation, a belching of views hostile to Leninism which were...
When Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Union's new prime minister, addressed the Supreme Soviet this week, his words echoed those of Lenin, Stalin, and to a lesser extent, Malenkov. "Heavy industry," Bulganin said, "has always been and remains the foundation for the further upsurge of our national economy... Our highly developed heavy industry is the great, historical achievement of the Communist Party and of the Soviet people." Although the Soviet Union would like the world to think its industrial economy is without weakness, economic specialists at the Russian Research Center know differently. These men, who daily inspect the latest Soviet...