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  2. History of communism - Wikipedia

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    In Cyprus, the veteran communist Dimitris Christofias of AKEL won the 2008 presidential election, the first and only communist head of state of a European Union country. [ 178 ] [ 179 ] In Ukraine and Russia , the communists came second in the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election and the 2003 Russian legislative election , respectively.

  3. List of communist states - Wikipedia

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    Nepal was previously ruled by the Nepal Communist Party, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) between 1994 and 1998 and then again between 2008 and 2018 while states formerly ruled by one or more communist parties include San Marino (1945–1957 and 1978-1990), Moldova ...

  4. List of socialist states - Wikipedia

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    The Indochinese Communist Party and the Workers' Party of Vietnam were the dominant parties prior to the consolidation of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Poland: Republic of Poland: 28 June 1945 22 July 1952 7 years, 24 days Polish Workers' Party [nb 17] Section 1, Article 1: "The Polish People's Republic is a socialist state". [58]

  5. History of communism in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The first significant attempt to implement communism on a large scale occurred in Russia following the February Revolution of 1917, which resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. The Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin , capitalized on the discontent with the Provisional government and successfully seized power in the October ...

  6. Communism - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Engels stated that in 1848, at the time when The Communist Manifesto was first published, [79] socialism was respectable on the continent, while communism was not; the Owenites in England and the Fourierists in France were considered respectable socialists, while working-class movements that "proclaimed the necessity of total social ...

  7. Pre-Marxist communism - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] According to Harry W. Laidler, one of the first writers to espouse a belief in the primitive communism of the past was the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca who stated, "How happy was the primitive age when the bounties of nature lay in common ... They held all nature in common which gave them secure possession of the public wealth."

  8. Vladimir Lenin - Wikipedia

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    The [First World] war is being waged for the division of colonies and the robbery of foreign territory; thieves have fallen out–and to refer to the defeats at a given moment of one of the thieves in order to identify the interests of all thieves with the interests of the nation or the fatherland is an unconscionable bourgeois lie.

  9. Communist state - Wikipedia

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    Academics, political commentators, and other scholars tend to distinguish between communist states and democratic socialist states, with the first representing the Eastern Bloc and the latter representing Western Bloc countries that have been democratically governed by socialist parties such as France, Sweden, and Western social-democracies in ...