Under Lenin, the government and economy were characterized by a transitional phase known as "War Communism," followed by the New Economic Policy (NEP), which allowed for some private enterprise and market mechanisms to revive the economy after the Russian Civil War. Unlike pure communism, which advocates for the complete abolition of private property and a classless society, Lenin's policies recognized the need for state control and limited capitalism to stabilize and grow the economy. This pragmatic approach aimed to balance socialist ideals with the practical realities of governing a war-torn nation.
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Mao's view of Communism was much more like Marx's while Lenin changed different aspects of Marx's theories.
Mao's view of Communism was much more like Marx's while Lenin changed different aspects of Marx's theories.
Vladimir Lenin started the New Economic Policy in an attempt to improve the Soviet economy.
Yes to a certain point, Lenin ended war communism and Capitalism was kind of introduced to get the economy back on track , but he intended to reintroduce full communism before his death occured
Lenin brought state capitalism to Russia, not Communism.
Lenin favored it, because he instituted it right after the October Revolution. War communism did not impose full socialism or communism on all aspects of Russia's economy. The Bolsheviks were simply too weak in numbers to immediately govern the entire economy of Russia with its millions of peasant farmers. Nor were they able to take full control of all the factories and other industry in the country. When the Russian Civil War broke out, the Bolsheviks were even less able to handle the economic demands of fighting the war. For this reason, war communism was instituted by Lenin in order to enable the Bolsheviks to survive the Civil War in power. War communism was later scrapped in favor of Lenin's New Economic Policy.
Lenin's emergency measures were called "war communism." War communism was later changed with Lenin's New Economic Policy.
Vladimir Lenin
American's feared communism for how it could change their lifestyles and Lenin had the ability to bring communism to America with Russia's army.
Trotskyism is a strand of communist theory which does not have any real differences with the communism of people like Marx, Engels and Lenin. It does however, have a very great deal of difference with what people usually call communism, that is, Stalinism. One way they differ is on questions of democracy, Stalinism is of course very anti-democratic while Trotsky saw socialism and democracy as being inseperable.
Communism obviously!