After reading this article you will learn about Lenin:- 1. Short Life History of Lenin 2. Background of Lenin's Thought 3. Political Ideas. Short Life History of Lenin: The family name of this world famous revolutionary and a great interpreter of the political ideas of Marx and Engels is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. He was born on 22 April 1870 (in [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the contribution of Lenin to the development of Marxism. As to the contribution of Lenin to the development of Marxism there are two distinct groups of thought one believes that Lenin amended the basic principles of Marx and Engels and, in certain cases, abandoned some principles to suit his own thought-system. Other [...]
Joseph Stalin in his noted work Problems of Leninism has defined Leninism in the following words and this definition is still regarded as classic. "Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution. Leninism is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general and the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular". [...]