Word: leninization
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Among her gifts to the party were two sons. One, Harold Ware, spent ten years in Russia, was complimented by Lenin himself for helping to develop mechanized farming in the Soviet Union. Ware organized the Communist espionage unit in Washington to which Whittaker Chambers was assigned. In 1935, Ware was killed in an automobile crash. The second son, Carl Reeve, 50, has been a paid party functionary most of his adult life, goes about party work with a fish-eyed frigidity, reflects the party's shift from wrong-headed but warm radicalism to institutionalized conspiracy...
...together from Westerners who have met him, and from escaped Soviet airmen who served in Poland and Germany with or under him. Their picture of Vasily is not quite so heroic. Vasily Iosifovich Dzhugashvili Stalin was bora in 1921 or 1922, probably in Moscow (no one is quite sure). Lenin was still alive. Joseph Stalin, in his middle 40s, was then Commissar of Nationalities and engaged in a bitter and bloody civil war. His first wife, Katerina Svanidze, had died four years before, and Stalin had taken as his second wife his secretary, Nadezhda Allilueva, the young daughter...
...scholarship as there was so much time for "sitting and reading." But he had a good chance to watch the coming of the revolution, as the prison camps were "not so strict." "You could go into the local town, and the people were good-natured." This was before "Lenin came and stopped the people from being easy-going." ("Too much efficiency is harmful...
...Alsops' clincher: "Imagine, then, that Klement Gottwald, Communist President of satellite Czechoslovakia, suddenly announces 'the Gottwald theory of revolution,' hailing his 'theory' as the greatest contribution to Marxist doctrine since Lenin's death" (which Mao does not say even in the Alsops' column...
...will discuss the writings of Lenin and Stalin as the blueprint for Soviet policy, much as Hitler's "Mein Kampf" turned out to be the blueprint for Nazi aggression. He declares that Americans tend to reject the possibility of fantastic schemes merely because they seem fantastic...