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[[Image:Lenin_1920.jpg|200px|thumb|<small>'''Revolutionary political scientist:'''</small> [[Vladimir Lenin|Vladimir Ilyich Lenin]], 1920.]]
'''Leninism''' is the theory and practice of the [[dictatorship of the proletariat]], led by a revolutionary vanguard party. Theoretically, Leninism comprises the [[Political science|political]] and socialist economic theories of [[Vladimir Lenin]], developed from [[Marxism]], and his interpretations of [[Marxist theory]], to fit the agrarian [[Russian Empire]] of that time, Leninism reversed Marx’s order of economics over politics, allowing for a political revolution led by a vanguard party of [[revolutionary|professional revolutionaries]].<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/ess_leninscritique.html</ref> After the October Revolution, in 1917, Leninism was the [[ideology|ideological]] basis of [[Soviet democracy|Soviet socialism]], specifically its [[Russia|Russian]] realisation in the [[Soviet Union]]. 


   Roland,  was that you and Greenstein who Rancilly took the sign from Birkenau?

  ---  George

As a political-science term ''Leninism'' entered common usage in 1922, only after infirmity ended Lenin’s participation in  governing the USSR. Two years later, in July 1924, at the fifth congress of the [[Comintern|Communist International]] (Comintern), [[Grigory Zinoviev]] popularized ''Leninism'' as a Marxist ideological term denoting “revolutionary”.

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