... significant roles in the largest war in terms of production, expenses, and lives, the world has known. Partisan Warfare is one of these forgotten contributions. It took the concepts of Marx and Mao, and shaped them into the mainstream military headache known also as "Guerilla Warfare". Since World War II, the guidelines of Guerilla Warfare have been used by hundreds of ... superior in numbers and equipment. By their use a weaker force can overcome its stronger and better organized opponent" (Miksche 25). A quote from the godfather of Communism Karl Marx captures the ideal theme behind P...

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... opposed the strict control thrusted upon them by the ruling government and embraced violent ideologies to bring about political change. The most appealing of these ideas was Marxism, named for Karl Marx who was a 19th- century German thinker. Marxism was known as the scientific socialism or better known as Communism which stated that human history was determined by class warfare ... . Marx claimed that the triumph of the middle class, or bourgeoisie, inevitably led to the rise of a proletariat, or laboring class. As the bourgeois became more wealthy the working class would ... Proletar...

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... 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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... , moments before they were shot. Stalin ordered the death of anyone who threatened his power or party including party members and army officers. Stalin ruled based on the writing of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the Communist Manifesto. His "power was maintained through the exercise of terror and monopolistic control of the means of communication throughout society"(Kershaw and Lewin). His ... ...

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