page_title: List of communist ideologies
section_title: Leninism
hierarchical_section_title: List of communist ideologies / Marxist communism / Leninism
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin Zentralbild 24.02.1960 Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin (Uljanow) geb: 22.04.1870 in Simbirsk ( heute Uljanowsk) gest: 21.01.1924 in Gorki bei Moskau U.B.z.: W.I. Lenin [Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin (Porträt)] Abgebildete Personen: Lenin, Wladimir Iljitsch: Bolschewik, Gründer der russischen Sowjetrepublik,
context_page_description: Communist ideologies notable enough in the history of communism include philosophical, social, political and economic ideologies and movements whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
  Self-identified communists hold a variety of views, including libertarian communism, Marxist communism and pre- or non-Marxist, religious communism. While it originates from the works of 19th-century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Marxist communism has developed into many different branches and schools of thought, with the result that there is now no single definitive Marxist theory.
  Different communist schools of thought place a greater emphasis on certain aspects of classical Marxism while rejecting or modifying other aspects. Many communist schools of thought have sought to combine Marxian concepts and non-Marxian concepts which has then led to contradictory conclusions.
context_section_description: Leninism is a political theory for the organisation of a revolutionary vanguard party and the achievement of a dictatorship of the proletariat as political prelude to the establishment of socialism. Developed by and named for the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, Leninism comprises political and economic theories developed from orthodox Marxism and Lenin's interpretations of Marxist theories, including his original theoretical contributions such as his analysis of imperialism, principles of party organization and the implementation of socialism through revolution and reform thereafter, for practical application to the socio-political conditions of the Russian Empire of the early 20th century.
caption: Vladimir Lenin
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