The Rise of Communism in Russia

-Unless we accept the claim that Lenin+s coup d+Ätat 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 of socialism in which
all class differences would disappear and humankind would live in
harmony. Marx and Engels claimed to have discovered a scientific
approach to socialism based on the laws…