Essay Archive - The Rise of Communism in Russia
The Rise of Communism in Russia
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 Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism in which
all class differences would disappear and humankind would live in harmony.
Marx and Engels claimed to h....
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