Marxism-Leninism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A communist ideological stream that emerged as the mainstream tendency amongst the Communist parties in the 1920s as it was adopted as the ideological foundation of the Communist International during Stalin's era, and was later adopted by the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Vietnam, and several other nations.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Marxism-Leninism

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian марксизм-ленинизм (marksizm-leninizm). By surface analysis, Marxism + Leninism.

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