Feb 6, 2026
What good did Lenin do
’s most tangible “goods” were organizational and intellectual: he led to seize state power in 1917, founded and structures that would reshape the twentieth century, and produced writings that translat...
Marxist theory
The body of thought developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that emphasizes class struggle and the role of the proletariat in revolution.
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3 resultsFeb 5, 2026
How do historians define a successful communist state versus a communist movement?
Historians distinguish a "successful" from a "successful" communist movement by different end goals and empirical yardsticks: a state is judged on institutional consolidation, command-economy performa...
Feb 3, 2026
Were there any notable black individuals who joined the Nazi party?
The historical record shows that membership of people racialized as Black in the German was vanishingly rare; contemporary historians and institutions note only one Black person in definitively docume...