Lenin Dictatorship of the proletariat
1 lenin 1.1 proletarian government 1.2 banning of opposition parties , factions 1.3 stalinism , dictatorship 1.4 post-stalin lenin in 20th century, vladimir ilyich lenin developed leninism—the adaptation of marxism backward socio-economic , political conditions of imperial russia (1721–1917). body of theory later became official ideology of communist states. the state , revolution (1917) explicitly discusses practical implementation of dictatorship of proletariat through means of violent revolution. lenin denies reformist interpretations of marxism, such 1 of kautsky s. lenin focuses on engels phrase of state withering away , denying apply bourgeois state , highlighting engels work panegyric on violent revolution . based on these arguments, denounces reformists opportunistic , reactionary , points out red terror method of introducing dictatorship of proletariat compliant marx , engels work. in imperial russia, paris commune model form of government realised in soviets (council...