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The new government also signed a commercial and diplomatic treaty with Germany, the Treaty of Rapallo, [244] as well as the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement with the United Kingdom in March 1921, [245] seeking to encourage the Russo-Asiatic Corporation of Great Britain to revive its copper mining operations within Russia. [246]
Leninism (Russian: Ленинизм, Leninizm) is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party as the political prelude to the establishment of communism.
The description of Stalinism as a continuation of Leninism, and thus of Leninism as a totalitarian system, was consenus in Western historiography until such revisionist historians as Lewin broke the consensus in the late 1960s. [541] According to Evan Mawdsley, the revisionist position on this issue "had been dominant from the 1970s". [538]
When the February Revolution of 1917 led to the abdication of the Tsar and the development of the Russian Provisional Government, Lenin returned to St. Petersburg, now called Petrograd. There, he urged the Bolsheviks to oppose the new government, and support proletariat revolution.
Future years would use the term Marxism–Leninism to describe Lenin's approach to economic policies which were seen to favor policies that moved the country toward communism. [18] The main policy Lenin used was an end to grain requisitions and instead instituted a tax ( Prodnalog ) on the peasants, thereby allowing them to keep and trade part ...
Socialism in Vietnam, in particular Marxism–Leninism, is the ideological foundation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) for the development of the country ever since its establishment. [1] Socialism is one of three major political ideologies formed in the 19th century alongside liberalism and conservatism. There are many varieties of ...
Revolutionary defeatism is a concept made most prominent by Vladimir Lenin in World War I.It is based on the Marxist idea of class struggle.Arguing that the proletariat could not win or gain when fighting a war under capitalism, Lenin declared its true enemy is the imperialist leaders who sent their lower classes into battle.
[3]: 30 He explains that Bernstein's positions were opportunist, a point expressed by the French socialist Alexandre Millerand as in taking a post in a bourgeois government. Against the economists' demand for freedom of criticism, Lenin advances the position that the orthodox Marxists had the same right to criticize in return.