Leninist

In Western political terms, we might think of them as a Leninist vanguard.

But this is the desperate logic of Leninist dreamers, not a reasoned plan.

Indeed, Russia had become a dangerous compound of medieval authoritarianism combined with a chiliastic Marxist-Leninist ideology.

After this six-and-a-half-hour civics lesson, let us now return to the Leninist mode: that of crushing the opposition.