Soviet slogan

[Gerald Janecek]

Thanks for a good source!

On Feb 2, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Robert A. Rothstein wrote:

> Gerald Janecek wrote:
>> Dear Seelangers,
>>
>> Could anyone supply me with the exact wording of the Soviet slogan  
>> that I recall approximately as "Kommunisticheskaia Partiia-- eto  
>> um, chest' i sovest' nashei epokhi"?  Also the source, if it  
>> comes, say, from Lenin?
>>
> According to _Bol'shoi slovar' krylatykh slov russkogo iazyka_,  
> compiled by Berkov, Mokienko and Shulezhkova, Lenin, in his 1917  
> article "Politicheskii shantazh," wrote "...ei (partii) my verim, v  
> nei my vidim um, chest' i sovest' nashei epokhi..." The editors  
> note that "do ser. 1980-kh gg. upotr. dlia opredeleniia znach. KPSS  
> v zhizni sov. obshchestva; so vtoroi poloviny 1980-kh gg. upotr.  
> ironicheski."
>
> Bob Rothstein
>
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Gerald Janecek, Professor of Russian
gjanecek at uky.edu
Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506

Editor, Slavic & East European Journal
seej at uky.edu

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