Communism

Yes he did. He had 4 sibilings. However two of them died in infancy.

everywhere. Stalin wanted the world's workers to revolt against capitalism

The USA tried to stop Communism from spreading by 1)Containment 2)Airlift 3)Marshall Aid These were the 3 main reasons.

In 1920 Lenin adopted a new revolutionary strategy that were aimed at societies outside of the Western world. He spread the work of Karl Marx through the communist International, or Comintern, a worldwide organization of Communist parties formed in 1919 to advance world revolution.

source: Glencoe World History text book. Chapter 25 section 2, page 831. This is a High school history text book.

Yes, they were known as Bolsheviks but after they came into power and abolished all other political parties and factions, the changed their name to the Communist Party in March 1918. Their reasoning was that while before the revolution there were several Marxist political parties, now that all of them had been eliminated, the Bolsheviks were the only Marxist party in existence. Thus it had the sole right to call itself the Communist Party.

At first, lenin... then lenin died and Stalin screwed with the succession and seized power.

There was no "trigger" (no specific cause). It just devoloped. Nazism existed during the 1930s too. Communism didn't become known to the outside world until about the 1920s. So, during the 1920s, 30s, 40s, the planet saw Imperialists, Nazis, and Communists, with the free world (capitalists) being the adversary of all of them.

I'm just now looking into this so don't quote me for accuracy, but I have good reason to present my theory.

I know that the Soviet Union was a totalitarian-communist country rather a country of true communist ideology. I will not attempt to explain totalitarianism because I have limited knowledge of it.

I believe that the Soviet Union fell because of its engagement in the Cold War. Communism strictly discourages competition between individuals and, therefore, between countries. The Union's activity in the Cold War shows that it was not Communism at all that failed. It was the excessive use of limited economic and natural resources that caused the country to fold in on itself.

If this is true, (which I believe it is) then it was the pursuit of political power (which is not a very Communist thing to partake in) that destroyed the USSR.

there's my theory. look into and see if it fits, afterall I've only been studying Communism for about two hours xD

Brezhnev Doctrine.

The Vietnam War was between North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was a Communist country trying to take over and control South Vietnam, thus spreading Communism to another country. The spread of Communism was something the US did not find acceptable. The roots of Communism have come from Russia who we were competing with in making the most amount and most effective nuclear weapon. This again comes back to a country working to control the world.

Lenin took power from the Russian Provisional Government headed at that time by Alexander Kerensky. Lenin did not take power from or overthrow the Tsar. That has already been done by the time Lenin took control.

Communism is an economic system. Democracy is a political system.

Communism determines how the total resources of the group are allocated so that everyone in the group enjoys the same standard of living.

Democracy is the voice of the people through the election process.

Could a Communist party candidate run in a Democratic election? Yes.

Communism is the opposite of the free-market ideals of Libertarianism.

Communism determines how the total resources of the group are allocated so that everyone in the group enjoys the same standard of living.

Democracy is the voice of the people through the election process.

Could a Communist party candidate run in a Democratic election? Yes.

Communism is the opposite of the free-market ideals of Libertarianism.

Democracy is the voice of the people through the election process.

Could a Communist party candidate run in a Democratic election? Yes.

Communism is the opposite of the free-market ideals of Libertarianism.

Could a Communist party candidate run in a Democratic election? Yes.

Communism is the opposite of the free-market ideals of Libertarianism.

Communism is the opposite of the free-market ideals of Libertarianism.

Too much spending on the military

the Soviet Union explored close relationships with Eastern European nations, Just as the United States created the Marshall Plan to provide economic support to Western European nations, the USSR established COMINFORM and COMICOM. Furthermore in response to the establishment of NATO, the USSR and Eastern European nations formed the Warsaw pact.

Yes. North Vietnam being adjacent to China did become Communist prior to our involvement in the war.

Stalin had always supported the Bolsheviks, while Trotsky only switched from the Menshevik party to the Bolshevik party after it was apparent that the Bolsheviks would win. Trotsky was a thinker with brilliant speeches, Stalin used force for votes. Trotsky led the army, while Stalin was the secretary. Stalin had great political appeal, but Trotsky had great militaristic and organisational appeal. Furthermore, Stalin was mentally and physically strong, but after Lenin's death, Trotsky began breaking down. The power struggle between the two sparked a conflict in which Trotsky fled the USSR but was later disposed.

Communism is a global classless stateless society based on production for use. It has never existed, so has been the cause of no wars. Under capitalism, wars are fought for access to raw materials, trade routes and markets.

allowed elements of capitalism within a communist economic system

A rough overview...

China used to be ruled by Emperors...e.g the last dynasty was the Qing dynasty which began in 1644 and ended in 1912.

Emperor was the only person allowed to wear yellow and they lived in the forbdden city.

The had a mandate of heaven which was their justification of a dynasty's authority, lost if there was natural disaster.

The terracota army was built by the first emperor of the Qin dynasty in 200bc and was only found in 1970.

By 1793 China regarded themselves as the greatest country in the world.

The dynasty's (and China) became weaker, as the rest of the world evolved e.g. Briatin overtook China during the industrial revolution, followed by the rest of Europe.

With the weakened Dyansty and natural disasters, there was room for a rebellion.

Then came the Boxer rebellion where, guess what; the Chinese peasents rebelled against the Emperor, Pu Yi who was only about 3 at the time.

The Gourmindang (or Kourmintang) ruled China, a capitalist based party run by Sun Yat-sen, the Yuan Shikai then Chiang Kai-shek. However, Chiang Kai-shek was a weak leader who lost the civil war to the communist party.

Mao Zedong was head of the Communist party until his death in 1976.

Containment.

Stalin was imprisoned and exiled several time in his life. He was arrested and jailed outside Baku in Bailov Prison in March 1908. Then he was sent into internal exile but escaped. He was recaptured on March 23, 1910 and again locked up in Bailov Prison and again sent into exile. Once again he escaped and went back to St. Petersburg. On September 9, 1910 he was caught a third time, imprisoned and on December 25 sent back into exile.

Stalin managed to get away from the town he was exiled to, but on February 23, 1913, he was again arrested and this time sentenced to exile in a particularly disagreeable town in Siberia, which is where he stayed for the next four years until the February Revolution in 1917 toppled the Tsar. With no Tsarist forces to arrest him again, Stalin got on a train back to St. Petersburg.

In 'The Communist Manifesto', Marx called upon the workers of all countries to unite. Once united, the workers would overthrow the owners and controllers of the means of production and by this revolt usher in an economic era of socialism, which would later evolve into communism.

The Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party) led the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The previous revolution in that year, the February Revolution, was not ed by any particular political party.

Because he ate a bad hamburger that day