Word: leninization
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Perhaps, in the auspicious atmosphere of Russia's new political prestige, Lenin's words to the Profintern's first world congress were again remembered in Moscow: "The conversion of trade-union members to the ideas of Communism is moving irresistibly onward everywhere . . . moving irregularly, incorrectly, unsteadily, overcoming thousands of obstacles, but . . . still moving irresistibly onward...
...Lenin's Problem. It was barely 26 years since Lenin faced the knotty question : would it be necessary to sacrifice the Bolshevik Revolution for the sake of a successful Communist Revolution in Germany, the key country of Europe? In Berlin, history in the peculiar form of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Wilhelm Pieck, now a member of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, had begun the Spartacus revolt against the Weimar Republic. It was Communism's first bid for control of Germany. It failed when Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed and their bodies thrown in the Spree Canal...
...November 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power. Said Lenin, at the second All-Russian Congress of the Soviets: "We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist order." The most stubborn fact in modern history had turned up: in a country continental in size, one class (the proletariat) had repudiated democracy and, guided by a monolithic party, rushed in the name of Communism toward the totalitarian state...
...German prisoner) but occasionally romps with his rugged daughter; that he works at any hour of the day & night; that he prefers his office in the Storaya Ploshad to his offices in the Kremlin; that he rests up three days a week in the country house where Lenin died; that he travels in a bulletproof automobile...
...most stubborn fact of Lenin's life was that he had achieved the world's greatest political revolution. The most stubborn fact of Stalin's was that he achieved the world's greatest economic revolution. It was a long way-the span of a crucial epoch of world history-from the Tsar's jails, police files and fingerprints to revolutionary triumph and apotheosis...