Word: leninization
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...this project two years ago, he promised that the debate about these 100 people would make for some of the liveliest dinner-party conversations imaginable. This list certainly did that. In meetings, hallway chats and, yes, even over dinner, TIME's staff wrestled with some wonderful historical dilemmas: Lenin or Stalin? Mao Zedong or Deng Xiaoping? The answers were closely reasoned and thoroughly researched. The editors also solicited the opinions of readers, who let us know what they thought by letter, E-mail and fax. Our Website time.com alone collected nearly 7 million votes. (Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern...
...this produced some memorable players. Look around. There's Lenin arriving at the Finland Station and Gandhi marching to the sea to make salt. Winston Churchill with his cigar, Louis Armstrong with his horn, Charlie Chaplin with his cane. Rosa Parks staying seated on her bus and a kid standing in front of a tank near Tiananmen Square. Einstein is in his study, and the Beatles are on The Ed Sullivan Show...
...after 1,000 years was the all but incredible story of the demonic little man who rose through the grating of a gutter to make himself absolute master of most of Europe and to change the history of the world more decisively than any other 20th century man but Lenin. Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. It was impossible to dismiss him as a mountebank, a paper hanger. The suffering and desolation that he wrought was beyond human power or fortitude to compute...
Moscow has reached a level of Westernization that would make even Peter the Great squirm. It seems as though for every Lenin statue hauled down after the fall of the Soviet Union, a dozen Western products have muscled their way into the lucrative Muscovite market. The "McLenin's" T-shirts sold to tourists around Red Square are a telling souvenir...
Many students may have missed Cramer's reference to Lenin, but they still enjoyed writing about cultural events for the magazine. As its editor, Kaplan planned each issue around an "anchor piece," a feature article about a musician, playwright or somebody in the arts...