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[[Image:Lenin_1920.jpg|150px|thumb|Vladimir Lenin in 1920.]]
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'''Leninism''' refers to various related [[Political science|political]] and [[economics|economic]] theories  elaborated by the [[Bolshevik]] [[Communism|communist]] leader [[Vladimir Lenin]]. Leninism builds upon and elaborates the ideas of [[Marxism]], and serves as a philosophical basis for the ideology of Soviet communism.

(contracted; show full)apitalist countries as long as the global system of imperialism remained intact. Thus, he believed that a lesser-developed country would have to be the location of the first proletarian revolution.  This was an open revision of Marx's thesis that such a revolution could only occur in a developed capitalist country.  A particularly good candidate, in his view, was [[Imperial Russia|Russia]] - which Lenin considered to be the "weakest link" in global capitalism at the time.<ref name=tomasic
%2526gt%253B> Tomasic, D 1953, "The Impact of Russian Culture on Soviet Communism", ''The Western Political Quarterly'', vol. 6, no. 4 December, pp. 808-9</ref> At the time, Russia's economy was primarily [[agriculture|agrarian]] (outside of the large cities of [[St. Petersburg]] and [[Moscow]]), still driven by [[peasant]] manual and animal labor, and very underdeveloped compared to the industrialized economies of [[western Europe]] and [[North America]].

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[[ro:Leninism]]
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[[th:ลัทธิเลนิน]]
[[zh:列宁主义]]