The similarities between the men are staggering: each followed the teachings of Socialism and Marxism, each had the tribulations of applying their methods during hostile resistance, war, economic collapse, and foreign invasion. ... Lenin, who was the more accomplished theorist and author of the two, outlined the major points of his work in his most important work: "What is to be Done." ... The culmination of this style of rule came with the formation of the Red Army, which staged a ruthless civil war against the opposition from 1918 to 1921. ... During this time the Russian economy was in ...

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Memories of help given to the counter revolutionaries during the civil war only helped to highlight the potential disputes. ... By 1926, pre war production levels had only just been achieved after the huge damage to Russia's infrastructure inflicted by the First World War and the civil war. ... Dissatisfaction was building among those who fought the civil war for the reds. Stalin's drive for the five-year plans was popular throughout the lower sections of the party, and communism being the government of the workers; it was hard for the more important officials to object to it. ... To...

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Not long after young Tom - who was called "Al" in his earliest years - learned to talk, he began pleading with people he met to give him their explanation of how everything worked. ... When the intense Pre-Civil War campaign between Lincoln and Douglas began, he peddled photographs of his hero Abraham Lincoln. ... At age 14, after Tom had learned the basics of the fascinating new art of telegraphy, he obtained a job as a replacement for one of the thousands of "brass pounders" (telegraph operators) who had gone off to serve in the Civil War. ... When the War ended Tom decided, to his mother&#x...

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The Theory of Money and the Theory of Value The most important point to emerge from Marx's theory of money is the idea that money is a form of value. ... Value is a central social reality for people; they constantly think and talk about it directly or indirectly; they want some way to transfer it directly among themselves, separate from particular commodities. ... Insofar as commodity relations are well developed, so that exchange of products is common and people are forced willy nilly to consider the value of products separately from their use values, the money form of value will also b...

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