Communism An Overview

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with private ownership of the means of production. Society would be run by and for the people.
Marx and Engels expected that this movement would happen in the most highly industrialized nations of Western Europe, the only part of the world where the conditions were ripe for these developments. This had not happened, though, and capitalism, though all its shortcomings, had been retained in Western Europe. Yet in other nations that lacked the conditions they considered essential for communism to thrive, Marx followers had attained power. The first of these was Russia, a huge, poor nation that was just beginning to acquire an industrial base. The people had almost no experience in political participation. In 1917 that rule was swept away. The Communist Party, led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, succeeded.
From the beginning the Communist rule in the Soviet Union had many problems. Early on the governments very existence was challenged repeatedly by its enemies in the country. ...

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