-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 …showed first 75 words of 2372 total…

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