Word: leninization
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...that time (1910), China's revolution against the tottering Manchu dynasty was in progress. Swept along by the torrent, Mao clipped off his queue as an antimonarchist demonstration. Other students promised to follow his example, but later reneged. This prepared Mao for party discipline-or what Lenin called "democratic centralism." Recalls Mao: "A friend of mine and I therefore assaulted them in secret and forcibly removed their queues, a total of more than ten falling victim to our shears...
...Communists canceled all rebroadcasts of their salute to Lenin...
...filled with the usual trumpeting speeches hailing Lenin's memory, including a tender, hour-long radio drama on his life. The drama ended with a fine rendition of Beethoven's Appassionata, Lenin's favorite piece, and Lenin's own words: "I know nothing more beautiful than the Appassionata and I could listen to it every day. Wonderful, immortal music. I always think, with perhaps a naive, childish pride, how can man create such wonders?" In its most cuddly voice, the Communist radio concluded: "Such a man was Lenin...
Forty-five minutes later, the U.S. radio came on the air with its own drama commemorating Lenin's death. Again, the Appassionata was played. Again Lenin's words were quoted-but this time in full. In the famous passage (TIME, July 7, 1947), Lenin had gone...
...Geneva and Bern ("hot-air factories," his friend Ussishkin called them), Weizmann continued to argue. He fought assimilationists and Marxist revolutionaries alike. When Lenin, Trotsky and Plekhanov (who frequented the same cafés) heard of his "counter revolutionary" talk, Plekhanov, in a rage, objected. Weizmann shot back: "But Monsieur Plekhanov, you are not the Czar...