As Marx outlined in his work, The Communist Manifesto, the bourgeoisie, being the more powerful class, employed the proletariat. ... In The Communist Manifesto, Marx clarifies the role of the Communists: 1. ... In essence, Marx believed that there was no distinction between the Communists and the proletariat. ... The purpose of the Communists was three fold: "formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeoisie supremacy, and the conquest of political power by the proletariat."" ...

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Ideological struggle between Capitalism and Communism was a definitive fact that stimulated rivalry: the USSR wanted to shape the future and reconstruction of the East in relation to the communist ideology; while the USA wanted post-WWII world scenario to be shaped by capitalist ideas. ... Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. ... This was written before Karl Marx's Das Capital or th...

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Anti-communist historian Richard Pipesi highlights the success in the Bolsheviks using terror 1918 to preserve a totalitarian dictatorship Bolsheviks ' were successful in using terror to preserve power during their time in power, simply because apart from terror they only had popular support'. ... The establishment of the October manifesto under Tsar Nicholas II was an attempt to re-establish support from the masses. The manifesto promised a more democratic constitution ' no law can come into force without its approval by the State Duma and that the elected representative will ...

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V.I. Lenin, born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was born on April 10, 1870 in the Volga town of Simbirsk. He was the third child of Ilya Nikolaievich Ulyanov and Maria Alexandrovna Blank Ulyanov. His father, Ilya, was employed as an educator and director to the school system of the province of Simb...

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avan...

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