Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. ... By doing this with the argument of war Stalin kept his rightist support and reunited the Communist party behind the Five Year Plans, massively increasing Stalin's personal power whilst discarding the rightist's power. ... There were also economic reasons to embark on wide scale rapid industrialisation as Stalin proposed. ... The five-year plans presented an opportunity to Stalin to glorify him at the foundations of the communist party. ... Stalin was shown as the master, forcing t...

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Also during this period was Stalin's aim of industrialization and collectivization. ... The Third Period of class against class was an attempt by Stalin to eliminate the rival of Bukharin and hence the change in policy contained no ideological motivation. ... Stalin then asserted that the aims of Socialists and Fascists are the same. ... In 1939 Stalin choose unwillingly to side with Germany in the Nazi- Soviet non-aggression pact, a choice that was made due to pragmatism rather then principles. ... Stalin said "Let every country defend itself against the aggressor as it will and ca...

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The world has seen those "someones" in figures of Joe Stalin, Bennitto Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and others. ... An interesting point is that Stalin thought that social democracy and fascism were twins. ...

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These policies were so closely associated with Stalin that they have been collectively termed ˜Stalinism'. ... In 1928 Stalin said; "We are 50 to 100 years behind the advanced countries. ... Launching the Five-Year Plan was instrumental to Stalin's increase in power, however Stalin was not the only component of this economic success. ... Stalin's appeal was to the patriotism of the people. ... Until the war Stalin's policies were based on avoiding conflict. ...

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Lenin and Stalin were not true to the Marxist ideals but were corrupted by power, yet the Marxist dream of an egalitarian classless society is one we should still strive for. ... The regimes of Lenin and Stalin made it clear that a "classless society" is not the result of these forms of socialism. ...

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Marx's theory of history is an account of the different stages of government through history. His analysis describes capitalism as the first stage followed by socialism and finally communism. Marx believed that socialism is where workers recognized their interests and became "class conscious". This is where people would be aided, on the basis of social needs. The final goal, Communism is based on a class-less society that will be profitable for the vast majority. ...

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Russia continued into a spiraling path away from true Marxist idealism as Lenin died and Stalin gained control of the Central Committee. Idealism, wishing for a unified and industrialized Russia, was no longer regarded and instead realism took over, as Stalin no longer followed Marxist policies. ...

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When the Manifesto of the Communist Party was published on the eve of the February Revolution of 1848 in Paris, it's main author, Karl Marx, was convinced that Western Europe was on the verge of witnessing a great class struggle between the bourgeois and the proletariat. In the middle nineteenth ce...

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