Marxism–Leninism

founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the Communist Party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, and his version of it is referred to as Stalinism.

European Eastern Military Alliance (1954 – 1991)

thumb|Official portrait of Joseph Stalin from 1945

thumb|300px|Soviet poster with the slogan "Raise the banner of Marx, [[Engels, Lenin and Stalin!", 1936. In the 1950s Stalin's official significance to Soviet Marxism-Leninism was reduced with de-Stalinization.]]

thumb|Chinese propaganda portraying Mao Zedong, 1968

type of economic system

state that is administered and governed by a single communist party

leadership method among socialist parties

thumb|260px|Josip Broz Tito meeting with [[Bolesław Bierut and Michał Żymierski from the Polish People's Republic in 1946.]]

Bolshevism (derived from Bolshevik) is a revolutionary socialist current of Soviet Leninist and later Marxist–Leninist political thought and political regime associated with the formation of a rigidly centralized, cohesive and disciplined party of social revolution, focused on overthrowing the existing capitalist state system, seizing power and establishing the "dictatorship of the proletariat".

political theory by Joseph Stalin

thumb|Supporters of the anti-revisionist Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) march during the May Day 2007 manifestations in [[Santiago, Chile, carrying a banner with the portraits of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin]]

a political theory attributed to Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

multi-party, popular front-influenced rule by the people for the transition to socialism

thumb|Che Guevara, after whom Guevarism is named.

irreligious and anti-clerical element of Marxism–Leninism

Post-communism is the period of political and economic transformation or transition in post-Soviet states and other formerly communist states located in Central-Eastern Europe and parts of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in which new governments aimed to create free market-oriented capitalist economies. In 1989–1992, communist party governance collapsed in most communist party-governed states. After severe hardships communist parties retained control in China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. SFR Yugoslavia began to disintegrate, which plunged the country into a long complex series of wa

communist term for social democracy

coat of arms with communist symbolism

thumb|right|Poster produced by the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA showing Marx, Lenin, and Mao

thumb|310px|Raul Castro|Raúl Castro (left) and [[Che Guevara (right) in their Sierra de Cristal Mountain stronghold south of Havana, in 1958. It was during this time as a guerrilla commander in the Cuban Revolution, that Guevara would base his theory of a foco-centered revolution.]]

political philosophy that builds upon Marxism–Leninism and the ideology of Ho Chi Minh

form of patriotism promoted by Marxist–Leninist movements

socialist party active in Ireland

centrally-planned economies with chronic shortages of various goods

primary symbol of youth communist organizations

type of socialism

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historical tourism involving visits to former or current communist locations

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1920 general election to the Communist International

centralized investment and economic input decision-making model under Leninist states

Third World countries which the USSR recognized as adhering to the ideas of socialism

in Marxism-Leninism, the method of criticising ones shortcomings as opposed to concealing them

a statement signed by a number of parties on April 20, 1992 on the occasion of Kim Il-sung's 80th birthday

overview of criticism of communist states

2006 film

Marxist-Leninist development stage