Word: leninization
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...Dennis ticked them off, those principles sounded no more radical than Harry Truman's Fair Deal, no more revolutionary than the teachings of Abraham Lincoln. It wasn't Marx and Lenin who advocated force, he said. No, indeed. If violence came as a result of what the party proposed to do, said Dennis, it would be the fault of "reactionary groups [who] try to stop the march of social progress...
Every year, millions of tons of coal are laboriously mined (at costs averaging $2.50 a ton), dumped into ovens and distilled, producing gas. For 80 years, scientists have been thinking of producing the gas without bothering to mine the coal. Lenin, picking up a British suggestion, wanted to try it in Russia. Since his death the Russians claim to have produced this kind of cheap power in many places...
...Stalin's first assignments from Lenin was to weld together the bickering nationalities of the Caucasus, and it was then that Mikoyan became his henchman. In this stubborn problem, Mikoyan demonstrated that he could be politic, patient, persuasive and in a pinch-like all Bolsheviks-utterly merciless...
...bottom of the list, in which Der Spiegel's readers went farther afield, was equally interesting. Stalin placed fifth with 172 votes, just ahead of Talleyrand and Metternich. Others who made the all-star list: Mohandas K. Gandhi (with 103 votes), Frederick the Great (55), Disraeli (43), Lenin and Caesar (33), Francisco Franco (24), Marx (11), and Truman (7). Clement Attlee got one vote-three less than Jesus Christ...
...revolutionist, perhaps, like Lenin," said Pirogov...