Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party
Vladimir Lenin, after whom Leninism is named
First edition Russian cover of Lenin's 1917 book Imperialism, the Newest Stage of Capitalism
1970 French edition of Lenin's 1917 book The State and Revolution
Leon Trotsky was exiled from Russia after losing to Stalin in the factional politics of the Bolsheviks.
Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement following the October Revolution. It was the predominant ideology of most communist governments in th
Leninism
…above" and opposed the Proletkult (1917–1925) organisational control of the national culture. In post-Revolutionary Russia, the Stalinist application of Marxism–Leninism (socialism in one country), and Trotskyism (permanent world revolution) were the principal philosophies of communism that claimed legitimate ideological…
1936 Soviet poster with the slogan "Raise the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin!"
Leon Trotsky exhorting Red Army soldiers in the Polish–Soviet War
Enver Hoxha, who led the Sino-Albanian split in the 1970s and whose anti-revisionist followers led to the development of Hoxhaism
Parade with communist symbolics in Aden, Democratic Yemen