Leninism

Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party, as the political prelude to the establishment of communism. The function of the Leninist vanguard party is to provide the working classes with the political consciousness (education and organisation) and revolutionary leadership necessary to depose capitalism in the Russian Empire (1721–1917). Leninist revolutionary leadership is based upon The Communist Manifesto (1848) identifying the communist party as "the most advanced and resolute section of the working class parties of every country; that section …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2023 English

The catastrophic terror Soviet power unleashed on the Ukrainian countryside in the early 1930s altered every aspect of village life. Based on extensive interviews with villagers throughout Ukraine, The Transformation …

misrepresentations, and even outright falsehoods of Marxism-Leninism. As I note several times in this study, another elitist and inappropriate vocabulary of Marxism-Leninism. For broader (etic) descriptions and analyses vocabulary deriving, for the most part, from Marxism, Leninism, and Stalinism. As noted elsewhere, I consider


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 January 2023 English

After a summit in Belgrade in September 1961, socialist Yugoslavia, led by President Josip Broz Tito until his death in 1980, initiated a movement with states in the Global South. …

2019). If we strip away its Eurocentric Marxist-Leninism and, particularly, its re- liance on a myth of


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 13 January 2023 English

An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007) was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would …

title: Stalin, Woprosy leninizma [Studies in Leninism]. It is the only book from which we learn Russian


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 December 2022 English

One of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) made reflection on culture a fundamental part of his academic work. He …

the twenty-first, primarily featuring Marxism-Leninism, humanistic psychology, Marxist revisionism, work – ranging from a future-oriented Marxism-Leninism to the analyses of “retrotopic” tendencies in how the evolution of his thought from Marxism-Leninism to revisionism changed his view on the cultural criticized the Stalinist perversions of Marxism-Leninism, with special emphasis on the alienation of the


RI: Rideau Institute · 23 November 2022 English

His quest The Asian Perspective for the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation In a self-regarding perspective that reaches only ignores the aspirations of the people of Taiwan for to …

itself. The of an ideology that combines Marxism-Leninism identity of China is as a civilizational great prosperity and wellbeing. derive from Marxism-Leninism. It is inextricably bound up with China’s Confucian


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 18 October 2022 English

In October 1890, Eugene T. Kingsley’s life changed irrevocably when he was injured in a fall between two rail cars while working as a brakeman on the Northern Pacific Railway. …

With the Bolshevik Revolution and the embrace of Leninism by a new generation of revolutionary socialists there were in fact certain key affinities between Leninism and impossiblism, such as a focus on militancy


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 11 September 2022 English

If in Canada and internationally public opinion does not think of us as advanced, then what is the purpose of asserting that we are advanced? What is the repetition that …

declared that Marxism-Leninism does not work. In other words, they wanted Marxism-Leninism to be wiped off


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 1 September 2022 English

The national and international developments which have unfolded since the Chertsey conference confirm the retrogression and dark reaction predicted by Comrade Bains at that time and, equally, the determined resistance …

lifestyle. We unite ourselves on the basis of Marxism-Leninism, a common ideology for the working class of all


DDN: Dundurn Press · 14 June 2022 English

Alexander Otkazov is a failed pianist trying to start a new life in journalism. But when he starts reporting on a mysterious group of avant-garde musicians, the story takes him …

performative, sympathy for the tenets of Marxism- Leninism and an abiding hatred for “rich fucks.” Most of


DDN: Dundurn Press · 1 June 2022 English

A failed musician obsessed with avant-garde art enters a shadowy world where bohemian excess meets the avaricious interests of a real estate cabal. Alexander Otkazov is finished with Montreal. Having …

performative, sympathy for the tenets of Marxism- Leninism and an abiding hatred for “rich fucks.” Most of


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