Leninism

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The essential thing to understand about Mr. Putin, she begins, is that he isn’t a Marxist or a communist or even a defender of Leninism or Stalinism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ms. Mitchell joined more than 100 other party members in calling for the party to reject Leninism and take a more democratic socialist path.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2022

One would introduce me to what Leninism was.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

He received his PhD from Harvard in 1953 for a thesis on the relations between the Leninism of the October Revolution and Stalin’s state.

From The Guardian • May 28, 2017

It came to be used interchangeably with Leninism, as a synonym.

From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by Spargo, John