Word: leninization
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...failed coup. A year later, the legacy of communist rule has proved difficult to erase. Democrats may be in control of the tip of the pyramid of power, but the middle levels are still dominated by bureaucrats from the old nomenklatura, who may have taken down their portraits of Lenin but pay only lip service to the new regime. In a show of strength last month, a coalition of hard-line communists and extreme nationalists tried to occupy Moscow's main television studio. Now party members have gone to court to try to repeal Yeltsin...
...wake of World War I, four imperial monarchies -- Germany, Austria- Hungary, Turkey and Russia -- collapsed. Two figures emerged on the world stage almost simultaneously, each a professed egalitarian and internationalist, each claiming to have a vision for the new world order. One was Woodrow Wilson, the other Vladimir Lenin. The 20th century can be seen as a struggle between their legacies...
Given a better break by history and its accomplice geography, those two countries might be cohesive and thriving today. But Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia fell victim to communism. For them, Wilson's legacy was at midcentury supplanted by Lenin...
...Lenin had been determined to keep in check all popular stirrings, especially nationalistic ones. His successor, Joseph Stalin, perfected a system that was autocratic in the extreme and prone to territorial expansion. With the Nazis in retreat, there was a huge vacuum to be filled by the Red Army in Eastern Europe...
...refocusing the media spotlight on his message to moderate voters that he is unafraid to deliver unpopular messages to important Democratic constituencies, including blacks. Jackson, who has been groping for a way to elbow into the campaign, obtained a grievance that he can use to browbeat Clinton for concessions. Lenin is supposed to have written, "Capitalists are so hungry for profits that they will sell us the rope to hang them with." Souljah has reformulated that maxim in light of the go-for-it '90s. A few days before her appearance at the Rainbow convention, she admonished the audience...