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Communism
Communism is a political philosophy that is defined by a classless society in which all goods and property are collectively owned. Some current communist countries include China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea.
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The name used by Losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili?
Iosif (with an I not an L) Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili is the Russian version of the birth name Josef Stalin, the Soviet dictator. Stalin was from Georgia, and his actual birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili.
When Communists became politically active, they sometimes adopted psuedonyms. Iosif took the name "Stalin", which is Russian for "man of steel".
Who ruled Russia after Lenin died?
A troika of Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev took power over Russia and the whole Soviet Union after Lenin died. Gradually, Stalin ousted all potential successors to Lenin one by one: Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Nikolai Bukharin and Lev Kamenev until he was the only one left. Not until 1929 did Stalin have sole control over the Soviet Union.
Why was Vladimir Lenin so significant?
Among all the leaders in the 20th century, Lenin is arguably the most significant person in the world of Russian politics. Exiled by the Russian government for his reformation and radical views, Lenin spent his time thinking and forming up his own government under heavy influence of Marx. Derived from "The Communist Manifesto", Lenin created a system of government that would later impact the whole world. Lenin had created his own political party called the Bolsheviks in 1903. While Lenin was in his own world, thinking about the future Russia, the whole Europe as well as Russia were in the chaos of WWI (from 1914 to 1918). Russia, having lost almost 4 million men to the war, is on the brink of national chaos. Its people were demanding cessation of the war, land reform and an end to shortages of food and goods. The Tsar of Russia, Nicholas Romanov II is overthrown in March 1917 while Lenin was in Switzerland. Germany, taking this as an advantage, sends the exiled Lenin to Russia and encourages him to pursue his ultimate dream of a communist revolution. Why did Germans do it? Because Lenin was against the WW I, and if by any chance Lenin seized power, then Russia will no longer be Germany's eastern enemy. Lenin returns to Russia in April 1917 and immediately begins agitating against the new Russian Provisional Government. In the October Revolution, Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize control of the government from the Provisional Government and take over Russia. He now creates a communist country that is called the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic later to be named the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and immediately changes the whole Russia upside down. Many Russian people and political parties who had tolerated the Bolshevik takeover now became thoroughly disenchanted by Lenin's ruthless suppression of dissent from his dictates. This leads to the Russian Civil War. Leon Trotsky now in command of the Red Army, defeats the opposing forces known as the White Army and White Russians. Lenin's takeover is now complete.
There were some good effects such as stability but ruthless killing and dictatorship was imminent. Lenin later dies in 1924 after suffering several strokes.
There were many political events that led to the collapse of Communism in Europe and the end of the Cold War. However, it was not politics but economics that ultimately led to the downfall of both.
Why did communism fall in Soviet Union in 1991?
The Soviet Union was never Communist, it was an example of state capitalism. Communism is a classless stateless society based on production for use.
Why did Vladimir Lenin kill people?
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin killed 1.6 million people for the same reasons Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong and all the others like them kill people. Its because their evil, they don't care about others and they want to.
Is the People's Republic of China a democratic country?
NO. PR China is a Communist Dictatorship. Specifically, it is a LENINIST COMMUNIST STATE. Leninist Communism is the political theory that a single party called the Communist Party rules the government and governs all affairs as opposed to individual politicians. Although the single party in a Leninist Communist State is the Communist Party, the party need not practice Communist political theory. In both China and Vietnam, there is a state-directed, right-wing economic and political theory.
What was the reason for the failure of Soviet-style communism?
Because if it only works on paper then it doesn't work at all. The mistake is in referring to communism as a theory when every test given this theory fails. A failed theory is a bad theory. Bad theories seek to blame reality in order to survive. Communism is not the problem it is the reality of the current situation that is to blame. If only everybody in reality would change and be more like the non reality of communism then communism could finally work. But, blame is irrelevant and if communism can't offer a system that conforms to reality instead of asking reality to stop being reality. Systems like capitalism embrace the reality of greed where communism aks that everyone stop being so greedy. But, reality being what it is, only the workers get to reject greed while those that "take care" of the workers keep on clinging to greed. Systems like capitalism understand the principles of supply and demand where systems like communism ignore demand and control the supply. Systems like capitalism understand that costs are directly related to prices yet systems like communism seek to control prices regardless of costs. Communism hopes to create a gargantuan state in order to suppress everyone in order to protect them from themselves so they can finally be free and then mysteriously claim that once that "freedom" is finally obtained this gargantuan state will just disappear into a "stateless society." The real question is not why communism fails in practical politics, the question is what practical person could possibly believe such mindless fantasy as communism could ever work?
Can capitalism and communism co-exist?
for the short term yes, communist states can exist with capitalist states, possibly for hundred of years, however if marx is right someday the revolution will be worldwide and capitalism will cease to be the domanate mode of prodution, when that day comes those is unknown and is likly hundreds of years in the future. right know humanities most pressing issue is to stope climate change from becoming out of controll.
How many siblings did Vladimir Lenin have?
He was the third of 6 children.He had 5 brothers and sisters.
Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Party?
Vladimir I. Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik Party ever since its beginning at the Party Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in Brussels in 1903. He remained its leader till his death in 1924.
The leader of the Bolsheviks, was Vladimir Lenin, and co leader was Leon Trotsky. This changed dramatically upon the sudden death of Lenin in 1924.
Vladimir Lenin was the founder of the Bolshevik Party and the one who organized the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. He is the first leader of the Soviet Union.
How was communism considered a threat to democracy?
Communism itself was not seen as a threat to democracy. Communist dictators who promoted a perverted and corrupted form of the ideology were. Communism is not the antithesis of democracy, but it cannot coexist with capitalism. The perceived threat to democracy was that capitalism would fall to communism and that democracies would come under the rule of authoritarian oppression.
Who sent Lenin to russia to lead the revolution?
So far, the consensus is that it was one of the Warburg brothers. There were four, two in New York, and two in Germany. One of the New York Warburgs made the plans for the Federal Reserve Bank. And one of the New York Warburgs began the campaign in 1919 to raise money for the six million Jewish victims of World War 1. That's right. WW I. According to the New York Times, Jews were the real victims of this war. Six million of them. One of the German Warburgs during WW I was the head of German Intelligence; and it was his idea to send Lenin into Russia to wreck the country and take it out of WW I. I would love to know more details. It is amazing that no-one has studied the German archives to get to the bottom of this.
What kind of values does Communism have?
Communism divides people into haves (governing), and have nots (workers). It is a highly restrictive form of government that does not promote equality nor liberty as many see or wish it to have. It is a totalitarian doctrine that puts the greater portion of a society into submission for purposes of control ensuring order, but at the cost of creative thought and problem solving. Its cost also include the loss of personal liberty, property ownership, individuality, choice, and freedom of speech. Socialism is a step down, though not much better as it also shares some of the same costs, but is less restrictive than communism.
What country fell first from communism?
Other than the nations that were swallowed up by the steam-rolling Soviet war machine during their advance thru Europe and Asia against the Axis powers in 1945; and the Red Chinese revolution of 1949; and possibly some covert third world nations (Cuba, Laos, etc.) that were not strategically important enough for the US to go to war over...the US sponsored REPUBLIC of South Vietnam was the only one.
Name the group of Russian Marxists led by Lenin during the revolution in 1905?
Vladimir I. Lenin led the Bolshevik Party. At first it had been part of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, a Marxist political party, but it split off from it. In March 1918the Bolshevik Party renamed itself the Communist Party.
How did communism affect Russia?
The effect that Communism has had upon Russia since the successful 'Revolution of 1917' is difficult to overstate, as it resulted in an entirely new government, social structuring, and values-system for the Russian people. In addition, the rise of the Soviet Union into super-power status after World War II had an additional effect on its people as well as on the world. Despite the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Communism continues to have an effect on Russia as a kind of general inspiration and influence in the current government and social organization.
Vladimir Lenin successfully overthrew the Provisional Government of Russia. This was the government that in March of 1917 forced the Czar to step down from power. Lenin then successfully overthrew the Provisional government that was largely one of democratic leaders and democratic socialists. Lenin imposed a dictatorship of the Bolshevik Party.
During the Cold War this policy was adopted by the United states to keep communism from spreading?
The US adopted a policy called 'containment'
Does Australia have a communist government?
Australia is not a Communist society. We are a mixed economy and feel that if the people have a responsibility to the country, so the country has a responsibility to it people.
Why did Lenin view religion as a negative influence in the lives of common people?
Lenin is a follower of Karl Marx, who believed that organized religion was a tool by which the bourgeois upper class kept the lower class proletariat controlled. In Marx's own words religion was the opium of the people. In that sense, both Marx and Lenin saw religion just as an oppressor of the working class as the bourgeoisie itself. Another reason is that they saw religion as imposing upon the lower class a system of belief in that which is not verifiable by logic or the senses. This meant that whoever believes in religion is substituting superstition for reason and allowing others to dictate to the believer what to believe and what not to believe.
Were the Bolsheviks for communism?
No, the Bolshevik Revolution ended in socialism and a poor version of it as well. Communism as Karl Marx saw it could not be imposed on any country, but socialism could. The Russian government was socialist that was run by people who called themselves Communist.
