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Comment: “Leninism is Marxism in the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolution.” (Stalin)

  • UPSC 1998
  • Western Political Thought

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The definition opens Joseph Stalin's The Foundations of Leninism, lectures given at Sverdlov University in April 1924, weeks after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's death. Stalin at once narrows it: Leninism is "the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular". It claims continuity…

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