... ideologies of nationalism and Marxism. As Stalin was himself a Marxist, Marxist ideology merits the most attention in understanding the events of his life. Named for the 19th-century German thinker Karl Marx, Marxism claimed to have unlocked the "scientific" mechanisms of history--and to be able, therefore, to predict the future development of society. Declaring that human history was determined by ... class warfare, Marx predicted a worldwide revolution initiated by the victims of industrialization, the urban working class. This revolution would lead to a utopia free of all class distin...

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... "world revolution" The USSR should push on with the task of encouraging other proletariat masses to overthrow their capitalist masters. (Cowie, 1994, p158). Trotsky believed, continuing with the teaching of Karl Marx, a world wide revolution of Communism should take place with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics leading the way. Stalin thought that Russia was industrially too weak to carry out a proletariat ... ...

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