Marxism was embraced by many countries around the world, one of them being Russia. The largest Marxist party that existed at this time was the Russian Social Democratic Party which was formed in 1898.
The socialist revolution was most likely in countries with an advanced state of capitalism. Russia was mostly agrarian and industrialization was one of the recent developments at this time. At this time, there was about three million Russian industrial workers, or about 2% of the population. Marx wrote in 1877 about his expressed doubts about Russia's potential for socialism. He states that Russia must first abolish peasant communes and move towards a more democratic phase.
The Russian Revolution is often classified, by those who led it, as the imminent rise of Russia's long-exploited working classes, and like many revolutions it was a strongly rooted against economic oppression. As there was much workers unrest in Russia, they largely accepted Marxist ideas. However, Russian Marxism had many ideological and logistic challenges. At one point Marx wrote of Socialist revolution being most likely in countries in an advanced state of capitalism, as mentioned earlier, with a large industrial sector as well as a sizeable mass of industrial workers, and Russia met none of these standards.
Later, Lenin, the Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, adapted Marxist theories to include his own, and the result was known as Leninist-Marxism. Leninist-Marxism combined Lenin's concept of imperialism as the final stage of capitalism and shifts the focus of struggle from developed to underdeveloped countries to Marxism's original ideas. Lenin claimed that social revolution was possible in Russia as long as the capitalist-democratic phase was bypassed. This became Lenin's ideological justification for the overthrow of the bourgeois Provisional Government. This adapted form of Marxism became critical to the development of the Russian Revolution in the last few months of 1917.
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The socialist revolution was most likely in countries with an advanced state of capitalism. Russia was mostly agrarian and industrialization was one of the recent developments at this time. At this time, there was about three million Russian industrial workers, or about 2% of the population. Marx wrote in 1877 about his expressed doubts about Russia's potential for socialism. He states that Russia must first abolish peasant communes and move towards a more democratic phase.
The Russian Revolution is often classified, by those who led it, as the imminent rise of Russia's long-exploited working classes, and like many revolutions it was a strongly rooted against economic oppression. As there was much workers unrest in Russia, they largely accepted Marxist ideas. However, Russian Marxism had many ideological and logistic challenges. At one point Marx wrote of Socialist revolution being most likely in countries in an advanced state of capitalism, as mentioned earlier, with a large industrial sector as well as a sizeable mass of industrial workers, and Russia met none of these standards.
Later, Lenin, the Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, adapted Marxist theories to include his own, and the result was known as Leninist-Marxism. Leninist-Marxism combined Lenin's concept of imperialism as the final stage of capitalism and shifts the focus of struggle from developed to underdeveloped countries to Marxism's original ideas. Lenin claimed that social revolution was possible in Russia as long as the capitalist-democratic phase was bypassed. This became Lenin's ideological justification for the overthrow of the bourgeois Provisional Government. This adapted form of Marxism became critical to the development of the Russian Revolution in the last few months of 1917.
http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/marxism/#sthash.xEUuqnYk.dpuf
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Marxist-Leninist