Marxism‐Leninism as a political religion

This article describes Lenin’s utopian design of a revolutionary community of virtuosi as a typical political religion of an intelligentsia longing for an inner‐worldly salvation, a socialist paradise without exploitation and alienation, to be implanted in the Russian backward society at the outskir...

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Main Author: RIEGEL, KLAUS‐GEORG (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2005
In: Totalitarian movements and political religions
Year: 2005, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-126
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