Portal:Marxism–Leninism

MARXISM–LENINISM PORTAL Introduction Marxism–Leninism is a communist tendency developed by Joseph Stalin as a continuation of Leninist theory. Its creation came about during a period when competing factions within the Soviet leadership attempted to establish their legitimacy as Lenin's political successors following his death. Soviet leaders such as Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, and Joseph Stalin wrote works developing the concept of a specifically Leninist ideology. Stalin coined the term to describe an ideology which considers Lenin's political thought to be a necessary development of Marxism, and made the term popular through his 1938 work The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks). It was the official ideology of the Soviet Union and other socialist states. Major figures Featured article The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR; Russian: СССР), also known as the Soviet Union, was a Eurasian Marxist-Leninist state that was established on 30 December 1922, following the defeat of almost all enemies in the Russian Civil War. It lasted until 26 December 1991, and was governed as a one-party state by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with Moscow as its capital. The Russian Federation is considered to be the legal continuator of the Soviet Union, inheriting the properties of its embassies, its membership in the UN, and its permanent membership on the UN Security Council. The Soviet Union was established in 1922 as a union of four socialist republics created after the 1917 October Revolution, namely the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and Byelorussian SSR. The years that followed saw the addition of the Uzbek and Tajik SSRs; the Transcaucasian SFSR was dissolved in 1936 in favor of the elevated SSRs of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. From 1956 to 1991, the union comprised 15 member republics, two of which had their own member seats at the United Nations. The USSR represented a groundbreaking political alternative for the working class as the first stable socialist state in history. This was remarkable especially in a time period where workers in the Western world were still struggling for basic union rights; the 1924 Soviet Constitution and the 1936 Soviet Constitution represented some of the most progressive political advancements in history. Featured image Painting of Vladimir Lenin during the Great October Socialist Revolution. Relevant articles Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Marxist–Leninist parties Marxist–Leninists Stalinism Actually existing socialism Eastern Bloc Ho Chi Minh Thought Hoxhaism Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism New Economic Policy Old Bolshevik Socialism in one country Trotskyism or Leninism? Warsaw Pact Portal:Marxism–Leninism Selected quotation "Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. To be more exact, Leninism is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular. Marx and Engels pursued their activities in the pre-revolutionary period, (we have the proletarian revolution in mind), when developed imperialism did not yet exist, in the period of the proletarians’ preparation for revolution, in the period when the proletarian revolution was not yet an immediate practical inevitability. But Lenin, the disciple of Marx and Engels, pursued his activities in the period of developed imperialism, in the period of the unfolding proletarian revolution, when the proletarian revolution had already triumphed in one country, had smashed bourgeois democracy and had ushered in the era of proletarian democracy, the era of the Soviets. That is why Leninism is the further development of Marxism." Joseph Stalin, Foundations of Leninism, 1924