Leninolatry

English Etymology en :af Lenin -o- -latry 1 1 Pronunciation en /lɛnɪˈnɒlətɹi/ en ɒlətɹi 5 Noun - The worship of Vladimir Lenin. en 1931 Mrs. Cecil Chesterton My Russian Venture 72 https://books.google.com/books?id=gPjTAAAAMAAJ Leninolatry has struck deep into the people. Already legends have gathered thick about his name, and I should say that eventually he will be numbered with the saints to whom millions of peasants still make petitions and offerings. en 1972 Robert G. Wesson The Soviet Russian State 150 https://books.google.com/books?id=hh0HAAAAMAAJ [...] of the Socialist Fatherland and the Russian homeland before it, by the call for collectivist and patriotic devotion, and by Leninolatry. en 1984 A. J. Polan Lenin and the End of Politics 122 https://books.google.com/books?id=oGPeHGyfqvUC&pg=PA122 In the immediate post-war years the Union was held together by the role of Washington as charismatic leader, around whom apparently developed a cult quite comparable to the Leninolatry of the 1920s. en 2010 Francis Spufford Red Plenty 416 https://books.google.com/books?id=cyb8oQQL0N8C&pg=PA416 Under the wretched centennial banner of Lenin blessing the children: the hundredth anniversary of Lenin’s birth in 1868, celebrated with outbreaks of unctuous Leninolatry in all artistic media. Translations French: fr léninolâtrie f Portuguese: pt leninolatria f Spanish: es leninolatría f en Communism Soviet Union