China supports the Leninist principle of "democratic centralism", but the elected National People's Congress has been described as a "rubber stamp" body.

Anyone who opposed these conceptions was silenced or expelled, breaking with the basic Leninist principle of inner-party democracy.

In building up the party, Fahd was guided by his own class feelings and political distrust of the intelligentsia and students, as much as by Leninist principles.

Mr. Gorbachev conceded that in the Stalin era, the Government committed "gross violations of the Leninist principles of foreign policy."

"The Leninist principle of democratic centralism even received explicit endorsement in the AD's party statutes."

It was based on Leninist principle of democratic centralism and the party rules of 1958 (modified in 1978).

Such reorganization, based on the Leninist principles, transformed the Party in the major reference of the resistance against the regime.

In other words, China is a marriage of a market economy and Leninist dictatorial principles.

For Gorbachev, opening the meeting, there could be no retreat from Leninist principles, or from the 'internationalist inheritance' of the revolution.

But after Lenin's death, deviations from the Leninist principles started.