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Stalin And The JAC

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Stalin owed everything to Lenin.” Stalin’s oppressive rule was legitimized by the “imprimatur of Lenin’s creation and succession.” Marx’s theory became Lenin’s doctrine and Stalin’s creative justification. Lenin’s Bolshevik (“Majority” in Russian) party was formed in 1903 with the objective of a stagiest societal evolution of Europe and Russia in the gradual progression from feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, and to eventual communism. In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gained his party political isolation, “effectively limiting the Soviet Government to only one political party,” the Bolsheviks. Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary “to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat.” This temporary law became a “dictatorship of the proletariat, and instructed his follo...

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