Lenin first defined the economic organisation of 1918-20 as "war" communism. This was in his pamphlet "The Tax in Kind" (1921). In this pamphlet he described it as follows: " a peculiar war communism was forced on us by extreme want, ruin and war it was not, and could not be, a policy that corresponded to the economic tasks of the proletariat." (Malle 1985) In early 1918 Lenin was faced with two main problems. Firstly feeding the workers in the face of severe grain shortages and secondly keeping the workers in the cities to manufacture arms and essential supplies. ...

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Marxist philosophy has been one of the most controversial subject of the last century. It has profoundly influenced the entire world, and the development of the current political relations. In this paper I am going to cover Marx's historical realism, how it was developed and its relevance. ...

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Defining politics today has different meaning from 20th century. Littrë in his 1987 dictionary defined politics as the science of government of states'. Robert in 1962 defined it as the art and practice of government of human societies'. Today government of state related to that of other human so...

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