power through a revolution. The people's role is to work and produce materials for everyone, not just themselves. The people control both the production and the distribution of goods. After Karl Marx's death in 1883 parts of the Marxism ideology altered and sometimes changed. This was done in order to suit the needs of those using the ideology and to also accommodate communism, which was practiced by Vladimir Lenin in the early 1900s. This hybrid was called Marxism-Leninism, communism, or socialism
power, forgoing the counterproductive nature of giving rights to workers. In post-tsarist Russia, Machiavelli’s treatise on war (The Art of War) was adopted by Stalin, & with the insanity instituted by Lenin, it was easy for Stalin to convert the revolution into a twisted people’s struggle that enabled him to maintain doctoral power for four decades (Miller). Stalin also chose to liquidize anyone he deemed as criminal or undesirable - ranging from the mentally or physically inept to anyone he aimlessly
Russia was on the verge of a revolution. For decades the country had been in an immense struggle between the Czars (rulers of Russia) and the people. Corrupt leadership and inequalities throughout the Russian society eventually lead to a revolution. Nevertheless when Russia started fighting in World War One it was evident that the spark had been ignited and the insurgency had begun. And as Europe approached the end of the war, Russia further advanced into chaos. Vladimir Lenin, a revolutionary leader
It abolished the market economy of the NEP or the New Economic Policy which confirmed the private ownership of agriculture and ended the “hated grain requisitioning of War communism.” (Crouch, 1989) Stalin substituted the free market in agriculture and private enterprise and replaced it with a highly centralized system of economy by setting prices of the goods in the market inflexibly, ordering enterprises to maximize outputs
us an effort to block all discussion of actual political issues and interests. (Those will be explained later). From the very beginning of Bolshevism, there were significantly different opinions about the way, how to develop social revolution. Social revolution for the world, or for a just one country?! The winner was Stalin. Though his methods of playing gave him