HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Lenin incorporated the peasants in the struggle against the proletariat
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Lenin wanted a revolution guided by professional revolutionaries, the Bolsheviks
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After the revolution, Lenin thought the state should be run by a single party rather then the proletariat
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All of the above are adaptions made by Lenin
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Detailed explanation-1: -Marxism envisioned a revolution of proletarians in industrialized countries, while Leninism also emphasized the revolutionary potential of peasants in primarily agrarian societies (such as Russia).
Detailed explanation-2: -Karl Marx could be considered the intellectual and philosophical leader of the Russian Revolution. Although he had died long before the revolution it was his ideas (along with Friedrich Engels) that sparked the political movements to overthrow the capitalist and autocratic government that was in place in 1917.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party), which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the revolution, Lenin headed the new Soviet government that formed in Russia. He became the leader of the USSR upon its founding in 1922.
Detailed explanation-4: -The basic principles of Marxist theory include the claim that all history is the history of class struggle. Another is the claim that society is increasingly characterized by the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and when the proletariat win, it will lead to an age of communism.
Detailed explanation-5: -The ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Bolshevist Marxism–Leninism, an ideology of a centralised command economy with a vanguardist one-party state to realize the dictatorship of the proletariat.