The release of the Communist Manifesto (published in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) on the Russian populace in the late 18th century was a catalyst for the violent, bloody Bolshevik revolution in 1917 – however the influence of the Manifesto, and by extension Marxism, is still hotly debated by historians and differing historiographical schools of thought. The Marxist school of thought, rooted by the namesake inspiration of communist ideals and Marx's original ideas and theories, followed the ideology that revolution is 'inevitable' and that in order for society...

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The ideas of Communism first started with German Philosopher Karl Marx. With the help of Fredrick Engels, the two of them published The Communist Manifesto, which at the roots were anti-capitalism. In the Manifesto, the state would gain more power, and social class structures would be dismissed. ... Lenin had finally come into power and immediately creating his new form of government using the ideas of Karl Marx as a basis. ... The Communist party has had a bad history of death since Lenin and Stalin. ...

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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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He utilized this time to study Marxist writings such as The Communist Manifesto as well as his general studies. ... Shortly afterwards, Karl Kautsky who served as the literary executor of the works of Marx and Engels boldly attacked Lenin and his plans for Russian revolution as non-Marxist and anti Marxist stating that a true Marxist revolution would be democratic. ...

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His plan embraced the arts and drew up concrete foundational concepts to propagandize new communist ideology and implement it into the hearts and minds of the people. ... These statues consisted of Marx, Engels, Campanella and Plekhanov, each devoted with a brief description of their life engraved upon a plaque. ...

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Today, many people are informed about nationalism. It becomes an actual political topic for debates nowadays. But, few people got down to the core of nationalism, how it aroused and developed. Some scholars think that nationalism emerged when the first people appeared in the World. The others believe that Nationalism is a form of extreme patriotism and suggest some ways how to avoid it or consider it as a form of Zionism. ...

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