North Korea was established in the 1940s as a buffer between the USSR and the West. While China became a communist state in October 1949, the two countries always had a culturally and ideologically fractious relationship, leading to the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s. Generally, it was very...
In the latter half of the previous century, however, history seems to have had other ideas. The two ‘Blocs’, the great realms of power split Europe down the middle similarly to how the Triple Entente once calved Imperial Germany and its neighbours out of the rest of the continent, only ...
The goal of Marxism-Leninism is the development of a state into a socialist republic through the leadership of a revolutionary vanguard, the part of the working class who come to class consciousness as a result of the dialectic of class struggle. The socialist state, representing a “dictatorship...
as the dark and low-calibrated humans and entities try to plunge the world into crisis, or worse, WWIII; and the threats emanating from the aggressive West towards Russia are again on the rise. You’d think humans by now would learn, but they never do. ...
The split had been a result of Stalin’s attempts to force Yugoslavia into strict adherence to Moscow’s authority, a move fiercely resisted by Tito, who championed Yugoslav independence and a uniquely Yugoslav socialist path. The resulting fallout saw Yugoslavia cast out of the Cominform and ...
components of this newfound economic liberalisation was the privatization of government property, its transition into private ownership. Intended as a way to streamline the work of former state enterprises, the reform instead led to the creation of the oligarch class and an economic class split in ...
However, the group split into two factions that had different ideologies and leaders. Julius Martov and Vladimir Lenin assumed control over the two groups. At that time, an autocratic leadership headed by the Tsar ruled the Russian empire. Poverty was rampant among many people in the empire. ...