Word: leninization
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...Four months later, establishment baiter Boris Yeltsin shocked a party congress by staging a dramatic walkout, leading an exodus of some 2 million disaffected members. But Khrushchev's miracle may not have been quite enough. By last week, it had become clear that die-hard disciples of Marx and Lenin were determined to regain the national whip hand, come what...
...fact, he has never claimed to be a democrat, preferring to describe himself as a loyal communist determined to return to the policies of Lenin. But if he is simply looking for a way out of his cul-de-sac in the Baltics, there is one he could use. He could identify them as a special case, republics that were kidnapped by Stalin, and allow their departure -- accompanied by treaties on defense and economic links that would make them in effect another Finland. He could then say to other potential secessionists that, as members of the Union forged by Lenin...
...pressure is building on Bush to speak more sharply in hopes of making Gorbachev reconsider. For conservatives, recent events only confirm their long-standing doubts about lending support to a leader they consider an attractively tailored Lenin. Says an analyst in Washington: "In effect, we need to stop payment on his Nobel Peace Prize...
...coal-producing regions and elsewhere have contributed their share in crippling the national economy, already weakened by inflation. The irony of these strikes, of course, is that the workers shouldn't need to strike in a state where they are by law their own bosses. With this in mind, Lenin outlawed strikes during the civil war following the October Revolution...
...much for utopia. So much for Marx. And so much for Lenin...