Word: leninization
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...accomplish these traditional Communist ends, China's Reds are prepared to use traditional Communist means. Yenan's ruthless strategy is as old as Lenin's: "The Communists, by their unwillingness to compromise in the national interest, are evidently counting on an economic collapse to bring about the fall of the Government, accelerated by extensive guerrilla action against the long lines of rail communications-regardless of the cost in suffering to the Chinese people...
Social Democracy, said Lenin, is a politically preposterous term; "under Socialism," he wrote, "all democracy withers away...
...What Lenin Thought. In the long view, Russia's internal distress would not contribute to world amity. But in the immediate context of 1946, it had the effect of enforcing on the Russian leaders conformity with James F. Byrnes's painfully developed policy of resisting Russian expansion by "patience and firmness." Byrnes had ended the easy growth of Russia's foreign influence; before the Kremlin was ready for the really strenuous efforts required to buck the Byrnes line, it had to turn its attention homeward, where chubby Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Stalin's deputy in the party...
...Lenin], however, doesn't limit himself to the establishment of unity and of connection between internal and external policies. He points out that internal policy is the basis of external policy...
...with Stalin signing for the Government) the highly significant agricultural decree aimed against the mass, illegal reconversion of collective farms into private holdings. To emphasize the importance of Zhdanov's twin tasks Stalin, ailing at Sochi on the Black Sea, let Zhdanov have the place of honor on Lenin's tomb (see cut) at the Nov. 7 celebration of the 1917 revolution. (A typical and revealing excerpt from Zhdanov's speech the night before: "It is precisely those remnants of capitalism in the people's consciousness we must still overcome and extirpate...