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
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
Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Sov
Marxism–Leninism
…the October Revolution. It was the predominant ideology of most communist governments in the 20th century. It was developed in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin and drew on Bolshevism, Leninism, and Classical Marxism. It was the state ideology of the Soviet Union, Soviet satellite states in the Eastern Bloc…
Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943
Police photo of Stalin, 1902
First issue of Pravda, of which Stalin served as an early editor
Stalin in 1917 as a young People's Commissar