Communism
Beginning of paper
Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup that gave
birth to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the
history of mankind, we must recognize in today's Soviet Union
the old empire of the Russians -- the only empire that survived
into the mid 1980s (Luttwak, 1).
In their Communist M ....
Middle of paper
.... the workers. The struggle would end,
according to Marx, in the socialist revolution and the
attainment of full communism (Groilers Encyclopedia).
Socialism, of which Marxism-Leninism is a takeoff,
originated in the West. Designed in France and Germany, it was
brought into Russia in the middle of the nineteenth century and
promptly attracted support among the country's educated, public-
minded elite, who at that time were called intelligentsia (Pipes,
21). After Revolu ....
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