The Rise of Communism in Russia.
The Rise of Communism in Russia
"Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup d'etat gave birth
to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of
mankind, we must recognize in today's Soviet Union the old empire of
the Russians -- the only empire that survived into the mid 1980's"
(Luttwak, 1).
In their Communist Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels applied the term communism to a final stage …
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…of unlimited arrest and summary execution of suspects and hostages.
The principle of such police surveillance over the political leanings
of the Soviet population has remained in effect ever since, despite
the varying intensity of repression and the organizational changes of
the police -- from Cheka to GPU (The State Political Administration)
to NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs) to MVD (Ministry
of Internal Affairs) to the now well-known KGB (Committee for State
Security) (Pipes, 140).
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