It must be the 60th anniversary of Joe Stalin’s death today that has brought up a somewhat strange conjunction. Only a few days ago I was enjoying the company of some of those involved in the Lenin research group in Nanjing:
Here is to be found a person holding a position to which everyone should aspire: a Professorship of Scientific Socialism.
Needless to say, I gave a lecture while in Nanjing:
And then, hours later, I was trudging through the snow of eastern Germany:
Climbing a hill called Langsamer Tod (Slow Death):
All in order to get to the evening meal of the Zinzendorf Society:
… as one does.
8 March, 2013 at 7:00 am
[...] week, while in Nanjing, I gave a lecture on the veneration of Lenin after his death. I ended by pointing to the increase in support for the Russian communist party [...]
8 March, 2013 at 7:23 am
Is the lecture on the veneration of Lenin soon to be published?
8 March, 2013 at 7:31 am
The lecture itself will be published in Chinese, in the journal ‘Contemporary World and Socialism’. But that is a spinoff from the long final chapter in Lenin, Religion, and Theology, due out with Palgrave in a month or two. http://us.macmillan.com/leninreligionandtheology/RolandBoer