As a consequence, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was, at the end of World War II, the most authoritarian society anywhere on the face of the earth. Stalin in turn fixed that problem by redesigning Russia to fit Marxist-Leninist ideology: he forced a largely agrarian nation with few traditions of liberty to become a heavily industrialized nation with no liberty at all.
Not content to wait for this to happen, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin sought to accelerate history in 1917 by seizing control of Russia and imposing Marxism on it, even though that state failed to fit Marx’s prediction that the revolution could only occur in an advanced industrial society. Karl Marx claimed, in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, that the industrialization capitalists had set in motion was simultaneously expanding and exploiting the working class, which would sooner or later liberate itself. Urn:oclc:61303540 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120204065634 Scanner .“The Bolshevik Revolution, which had happened only a quarter century earlier, had in contrast involved the embrace of concentrated authority as a means of overthrowing class enemies and consolidating a base from which a proletarian revolution would spread throughout the world. Sold by Penguin 4.0 star 22 reviews Ebook 352 Pages familyhome Eligible info 8.99 4.99 Ebook Free sample shoppingmode 44 price.
Book Cover for: We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, John Lewis Gaddis. OL2865967W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.13 Pages 378 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0141029994 The Cold War: A New History John Lewis Gaddis Dec 2006 Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research. Urn:lcp:coldwarnewhistor00gadd:epub:aaa2c60e-3e13-400a-ab60-78cd4ce54982 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier coldwarnewhistor00gadd Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8sb54q9w Isbn 9781594200625ġ594200629 Lccn 2005053406 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary O元428737M Openlibrary_edition
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