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The political philosophy named after Vladimir Lenin that is characterized by the theory of imperialism and the theory of the revolutionary party
= Marxism-Leninism. Principles expounded by Vladimir Ilich Lenin to guide the transition of society from capitalism to communism. The tenets of Marxism, which Lenin embraced, provided no concrete guidelines for the transition. Lenin believed that a small, disciplined, professional group of revolutionaries was needed to violently overthrow the capitalist system, and that a "dictatorship of the proletariat" must guide society until the day when the state would wither away. That day never came, and Leninism in practice meant state control of all aspects of life by the Communist Party and the creation of the first modern totalitarian state. See also Bolshevik, Stalinism, totalitarianism
{i} form of Communism developed by Lenin
the political and economic theories of Lenin which provided the guiding doctrine of the Soviet Union; the modification of Marxism by Lenin stressed that imperialism is the highest form of capitalism (which shifts the struggle from developed to underdeveloped countries)

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Marxism-Leninism
A communist ideological stream that emerged as the mainstream tendency amongst the Communist parties in the 1920s as it was adopted as the ideological foundation of the Communist International during Stalin's era, and was later adopted by the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Vietnam, and several other nations
Marxism-Leninism
the ideas of Marxism as explained and added to by the Russian leader Lenin, who believed in the "dictatorship of the proletariat" (=when government is controlled by a combination of industrial workers and poor farm workers) as part of the process of achieving revolution
leninism

    Hyphenation

    Len·in·i·sm

    Turkish pronunciation

    lenînîzım

    Pronunciation

    /ˈlenəˌnəzəm/ /ˈlɛnɪˌnɪzəm/
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