Politicheskij jazyk Lenina: idioma "Partijnost'" [Il linguaggio politico di Lenin: l'idioma "Partijnost'"]

This article focuses on the discursive structure on Lenin’s texts, which had yet to be the subject of special analysis. Attention is focused on the distinguishing features of Lenin’s texts on a lexical, syntactical, rhetorical, and functional and pragmatic levels, which his contemporaries perceived and described as deviations against the background of the standard political and linguistic forms of the era. The imperative character, purposefulness, pragmatism, and neat endless elasticity of the linguistic structures are traced in the example of a palette from the fifteen different meanings of Lenin’s idiom of partiinost’, which arose in numerous contexts of the political and intellectual polemics led by the founder of the USSR.