Vladimir Ilyich Lenin took the ideals from the Communist Manifesto and became a Russian revolutionary leader in the early 1900s.
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The communist party is a political party. In Russia, communism was known as the Russian Social Democracy.
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Fidel Castro was a revolutionary leader who established a communist regime in Cuba. His primary ally in the revolution was Che Guvarra. He was the first secretary of the communist party of Cuba from 1961 to 2011. He was also a Prime Minister, President, and Commander in Chief.
Karl Marx, one of the most well known founding fathers of sociology, was known for his communist views. His most famous writing was titled, "The Communist Manifesto."
The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP), a Marxist political party, wanted a Communist state. The RSDLP had two factions, the Bolshevik and the Menshevik factions. The Bolsheviks eventually split from the RSDLP, took control of the Russian Provisional Government and created the first Communist government. At first the new communist nation was called the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and then became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR or Soviet Union.
The Russian Revolution implemented a socialist, not a communist, system in 1917. It became "communist" in name only. The reason it was socialist is that all property, land and industry were considered owned by the government, not by the people.
Communism means a classless stateless society based on production for use. Clearly no country became Communist after WW1, and Communism will have to exist at a global level anyway. Russia became state capitalist.
They were originally called Bolsheviks (Russian for "One of the Majority.") The were originated in 1903, and gradually became the dominant political party. Organized and led by Lenin, they seize full control of the government in 1917. They became the Russian Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in March 1918, then the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in December 1925; and finally the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in October 1952.
For centuries they had a monarchy and then a communist government for the last 90 years. Until the 1980's when they became a semi democracy. I was there last year and all the communist symbols are still up and on buildings my personal opinion is that they are still communist.
Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the radical faction of the Russian Socialist Democratic Labor Party known as the Bolshevik Party. In March 1918, they changed their name to the Communist Party.