Essay Archive - The Rise of Communism in Russia
The Rise of Communism in Russia
"Unless we accept the claim that LeninŐs coup dŐtat gave birth to an
entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must
recognize in todayŐs Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians -- the only
empire that survived into the mid 1980's" (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 have discovered a scientific approach to socialism based on
the la....
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