Once Stalin was in control, part ideology and leadership all came under his leadership. ... NEP brought with it a series of capitalist ideologies, completely against the party's views, and despite its early needs for it, as time passed by debates aroused on the future; Bukharin wanting to continue the NEP and Trotsky wanting to remove it. ... Ultimately the leadership conflicts aroused from differing vision for the future of Russia, allowed Stalin to take power, changing and shaping Russian history, forming a totalitarian rule. ...

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Karl Marx set forth the fundamental proposition, which forms the nucleus of the Communist Manifesto: that consequently the whole history of mankind (since the dissolution of primitive tribal society, holding land in common ownership) has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes; that the history of these class struggles forms a series of evolutions in which, nowadays, a stage has been reached where the exploited and oppressed class-the proletariat-cannot attain its emancipation from the sway of the exploiting and ruling class...

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