Although it is traditional to describe the political system set up after the Bolshevik coup d’état of October 1917 in Russia as a Marxist society, it should, more properly, be described as Marxist-Leninist. Marxist-Leninism was the phrase...

Marxism-Leninism is a communist ideological stream that emerged as the mainstream tendency amongst the Communist parties in the 1920s as it was adopted as the ideological foundation of the Communist International during Stalin's era. However, in various...